John's Island/James Island, SC, USA
3 oval shapes outlined in green glow lights, followed car at distance the length of Bohickett Road to James Island.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-06-01
- Where
- John's Island/James Island, SC, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 32.769, -80.102 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-john-s-island-james-island-sc-1978-6f5b92
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In context
- John's Island/James Island, SC has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 4 reports from South Carolina.
- The 1970s skewed 6.9% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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