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
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
- 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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