Columbia, SC, USA
Big bright red and orange unknown shaped object hubbering in one spot in the sky for about 5 min then moved vely slowly to the right an
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-11-21
- Where
- Columbia, SC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 34.001, -81.035 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-columbia-sc-2013-77fc15
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
- One of 66 documented reports from Columbia, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Carolina logged 159 sightings in 2013.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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