CaseCircle2016

North Charleston, SC, USA

Husband and I saw a bright round light (the size of a penny on the windshield) appear twice and fade, never moving.

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-04-09
Where
North Charleston, SC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
8 seconds
Geo
32.855, -79.975 · exact
Slug
circle-over-north-charleston-sc-2016-ad1f86
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…

In context

  • One of 26 documented reports from North Charleston, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 97 sightings in 2016.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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