CaseCircle2010
Darlington, SC, USA
((HOAX??)) this was a alien vessel
Report quality: Low12/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (23 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2010-02-21
- Where
- Darlington, SC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- ufo
- Geo
- 34.300, -79.876 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-darlington-sc-2010-ae2b60
Wave
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…
In context
- Darlington, SC shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 70 reports came from South Carolina in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.