UFOMYST
CaseDisk2015

Columbia, SC, USA

Saucer shape with red, yellow, green lights like lights on a ferris wheel at the stat fair. ((NUFORC Note: "Twinkling" star? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2015-07-29
Where
Columbia, SC, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 hours
Geo
34.001, -81.035 · exact
Slug
disk-over-columbia-sc-2015-5daa8d
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 66 reports logged in Columbia, SC.
  • This case is one of 109 South Carolina reports filed in 2015.
  • Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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