CaseLight2019

Charleston, SC, USA

Observed large orange lights/orbs in the night sky. The bright circular light appeared suddenly, splittling from 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 orbs

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-07-29
Where
Charleston, SC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
32.776, -79.933 · exact
Slug
light-over-charleston-sc-2019-d21816
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 has 72 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 115 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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