West Columbia, SC, USA
50-100 "stars" flying in a line across the sky, almost like a close up constellation.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-10-22
- Where
- West Columbia, SC, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.993, -81.074 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-west-columbia-sc-2011-ff000c
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
- West Columbia, SC has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 117 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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