CaseCone1971
Cowpens, SC, USA
A round, cone-shaped object with lights around its edges was reported over Cowpens, South Carolina, in May 1971, observed for ten to twenty minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (148 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-05-15
- Where
- Cowpens, SC, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 10 TO 20 ? MIN
- Geo
- 35.017, -81.804 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-cowpens-sc-1971-57c42d
In context
- Cowpens, SC has 6 sightings on file here.
- 1971 brought 3 reports from South Carolina.
- The 1970s skewed 0.4% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.
Report
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