CaseLight2013

Charleston, SC, USA

Orange lights in formation in SW sky near Charleston, SC.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-02-28
Where
Charleston, SC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
32.776, -79.933 · exact
Slug
light-over-charleston-sc-2013-9b8c59
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

  • Charleston, SC shows up 72 times across the archive.
  • 159 reports came from South Carolina in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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