North, SC, USA
Triangular aircraft (not a helicopter) hovering in place next to road at night
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-10-16
- Where
- North, SC, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3 min. approx.
- Geo
- 33.616, -81.102 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-north-sc-2020-b46042
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
- North, SC shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 116 reports came from South Carolina in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 6.2% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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