Between Orangeburg and Santee, SC, USA
White lights in that appeared to be oval in fashion was hovering approximately 500 feet from the ground. Turned to a 45 degree angle an
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-04-26
- Where
- Between Orangeburg and Santee, SC, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
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- Slug
- oval-over-between-orangeburg-and-santee-sc-2022-774307
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Between Orangeburg and Santee, SC.
- This case is one of 21 South Carolina reports filed in 2022.
- Oval craft made up 3.5% of 2020s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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