CaseFireball2015

Columbia, SC, USA

Soundless oval fireball - first still, then moving rapidly over Southeast Columbia, SC.

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-06-20
Where
Columbia, SC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20-30 seconds
Geo
34.001, -81.035 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-columbia-sc-2015-e65b10
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

  • Columbia, SC shows up 66 times across the archive.
  • 109 reports came from South Carolina in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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