CaseFormation2018

Edisto Beach, SC, USA

Half circle Formation of 10-20 dim lights moving quickly down coastline of Edisto Beach.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-03-04
Where
Edisto Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
<10 second
Geo
32.479, -80.335 · exact
Slug
formation-over-edisto-beach-sc-2018-df063c
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

  • Edisto Beach, SC has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 78 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

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.