Santee, SC, USA
Large triangle ship with 3 white lights and flashing orange light, flew very low, with no sound. ((NUFORC Note: Jet a/c?? PD))
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-11-20
- Where
- Santee, SC, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 33.475, -80.486 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-santee-sc-2017-549c30
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
- Santee, SC has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 109 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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