CaseSphere2017

Kershaw, SC, USA

((HOAX??)) The craft was bright chrome there was not any clouds in the sky. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Low21/100

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 (64 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2017-12-13
Where
Kershaw, SC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 minute
Geo
34.552, -80.584 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-kershaw-sc-2017-18a932
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

  • Kershaw, SC shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 109 reports came from South Carolina in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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