CaseLight2019

Cheraw, SC, USA

I stepped outside to smoke and I was looking up and saw these strange lights. They were white, red and a green-blue color.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-05-03
Where
Cheraw, SC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
34.698, -79.883 · exact
Slug
light-over-cheraw-sc-2019-e7c7dc
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

  • Cheraw, SC shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 115 reports came from South Carolina in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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