UFOMYST
CaseCircle2010

Hilton Head Island, SC, USA

My wife and I saw two orange orbs in the sky off the beach in Hilton Head Island, SC.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-08-12
Where
Hilton Head Island, SC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
32.194, -80.738 · exact
Slug
circle-over-hilton-head-island-sc-2010-25ca40
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • This is one of 9 reports logged in Hilton Head Island, SC.
  • This case is one of 70 South Carolina reports filed in 2010.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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