CaseTriangle2016

Conway, SC, USA

((HOAX??)) Odd blinking lights, 3 in a shape of a triangle, and one dull but bright orange sphere shaped light.

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2016-08-09
Where
Conway, SC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
Still out there
Geo
33.836, -79.048 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-conway-sc-2016-1bab4f
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

  • Conway, SC has 38 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 97 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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