CaseTriangle2016

Chester, SC, USA

Bright lights, shaped triangular with colored lights around that change staying in the night sky.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-04-24
Where
Chester, SC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
almost daybreak
Geo
34.705, -81.214 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-chester-sc-2016-47193c
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

  • One of 6 documented reports from Chester, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 97 sightings in 2016.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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