North Augusta, SC, USA
Shiny, silver object - looked like flying submarine; No noise, markings, or wings; Fireball/Sonic Boom 2 wks later in same area.
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-06
- Where
- North Augusta, SC, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 6-8 sec
- Geo
- 33.502, -81.965 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-north-augusta-sc-2009-53c49a
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 11 reports logged in North Augusta, SC.
- This case is one of 68 South Carolina reports filed in 2009.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.