Simpsonville, SC, USA
Orange/reddish cigar shaped craft travels across the horizon then disappears straight up vertically.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-03
- Where
- Simpsonville, SC, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 34.737, -82.254 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-simpsonville-sc-2012-4f4746
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Simpsonville, SC in August 2012 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Simpsonville, SC has 31 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 186 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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