CaseLight2018

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
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

  • 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 days

Report

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