CaseFlash2018

Clover, SC, USA

Bright boomerang shaped object caused corneal burns

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-12-26
Where
Clover, SC, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
35.111, -81.226 · exact
Slug
flash-over-clover-sc-2018-9574ab
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

  • Clover, SC has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 78 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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