CaseLight2001
Columbia, SC, USA
My friend and I observed a bright light that appeared to be a star, zig-zagging up and down while going straigt, at a very fast speed.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-06-19
- Where
- Columbia, SC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 34.001, -81.035 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-columbia-sc-2001-143e5c
In context
- Columbia, SC shows up 66 times across the archive.
- 22 reports came from South Carolina in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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