UFOMYST
CaseSphere2017

Simpsonville, SC, USA

Spherical color-changing light seen in the NE sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly the star, Capella? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-10-05
Where
Simpsonville, SC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 hours
Geo
34.737, -82.254 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-simpsonville-sc-2017-aa03c6
Wave

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In context

  • One of 31 documented reports from Simpsonville, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 109 sightings in 2017.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

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