Garden City, SC, USA
During a time frame of approximately one hour several light patterns and color were observed by several people.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-15
- Where
- Garden City, SC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 33.593, -79.009 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-garden-city-sc-2017-b0857c
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
- Garden City, SC has 29 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 109 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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