Bluffton, SC, USA
Yellowish/orange lights hovering in the sky for about 10 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-04
- Where
- Bluffton, SC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 32.237, -80.860 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bluffton-sc-2014-4c2ff9
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…
Local cluster
Bluffton, SC logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2014.
In context
- One of 11 documented reports from Bluffton, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Carolina logged 260 sightings in 2014.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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