CaseSphere2015

Charleston, SC, USA

We saw single orange ball of light moving slowly with no sound in night sky.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-04-08
Where
Charleston, SC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
<1 minute
Geo
32.776, -79.933 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-charleston-sc-2015-840121
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…

In context

  • Charleston, SC has 72 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 109 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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