CaseFireball2013
Rock Hill, SC, USA
5 small balls of Orange light in a cluster.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (43 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-01-08
- Where
- Rock Hill, SC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 -15 minutes
- Geo
- 34.925, -81.025 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rock-hill-sc-2013-b1d6aa
Wave
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…
In context
- Rock Hill, SC has 34 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 159 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.