Hilton Head, SC, USA
I went to Savannah airport to pick up my friend for the weekend On our way home we were traveling toward hilton head island on route
Report quality: High73/100
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
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-10
- Where
- Hilton Head, SC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 32.216, -80.753 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-hilton-head-sc-2016-3f5854
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
September 2016 was a busy month for Hilton Head, SC: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 12 reports logged in Hilton Head, SC.
- This case is one of 97 South Carolina reports filed in 2016.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s 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.