CaseCircle2019

Trio, SC, USA

A large circle with red and white lights hovering in front of car at tree level.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-05-02
Where
Trio, SC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
33.486, -79.718 · exact
Slug
circle-over-trio-sc-2019-27054e
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

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Trio, SC.
  • This case is one of 115 South Carolina reports filed in 2019.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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