Whitmire, SC, USA
There was 3 red lights in the sky low above the trees in the distance ..the lights were in a line one behind the other spaced out a lit
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-09
- Where
- Whitmire, SC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 34.503, -81.611 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-whitmire-sc-2017-9601ce
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
- Whitmire, SC has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 109 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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