Pelzer, SC, USA
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Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-01
- Where
- Pelzer, SC, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.642, -82.456 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-pelzer-sc-1997-17edba
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- One of 8 documented reports from Pelzer, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Carolina logged 11 sightings in 1997.
- Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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