CaseLight2010

Charleston, SC, USA

Very bright light travels across night sky in slightly irregular path and then fades

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-09-13
Where
Charleston, SC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 min
Geo
32.776, -79.933 · exact
Slug
light-over-charleston-sc-2010-2e85d3
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

  • One of 72 documented reports from Charleston, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 70 sightings in 2010.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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