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CaseOther2012

Charleston, SC, USA

Appeared to be Japanese coating lanterns on 4 separate occasions. 2 people and video. Charleston SC.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-15
Where
Charleston, SC, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
15-25 minutes
Geo
32.776, -79.933 · exact
Slug
other-over-charleston-sc-2012-1f9f26
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Charleston, SC in June 2012 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Charleston, SC has 72 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 186 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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