Hilton Head Island, SC, USA
A white floating object that then turned orange and kept moving in a small area.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-07-04
- Where
- Hilton Head Island, SC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 32.194, -80.738 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-hilton-head-island-sc-2018-2d0de3
Part of a wave
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
- Hilton Head Island, SC has 9 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 78 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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