Gaffney, SC, USA
I was standimg in my back yeard i something shiny cought the coner when i look there was a bright silver cylinder and it was siting sta
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-15
- Where
- Gaffney, SC, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.072, -81.650 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-gaffney-sc-1997-864e4d
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Gaffney, SC shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from South Carolina in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 1.4% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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