Columbia, SC, USA
A large circular craft with many different colored lights blinking around it (like they were windows or lights on the craft).
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-06-01
- Where
- Columbia, SC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15min
- Geo
- 34.001, -81.035 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-columbia-sc-1978-800e94
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In context
- This is one of 66 reports logged in Columbia, SC.
- This case is one of 4 South Carolina reports filed in 1978.
- Circle craft made up 10.5% of 1970s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.