UFO Sightings in South Carolina
2,109 UFO sightings reported in South Carolina since 1939, peaking in 2014 (260 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 2,109
- Span
- 1939–2022
- Peak year
- 2014 (260 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1939–2022 · peak 2014 (260 reports)
Top cities in South Carolina
Myrtle Beach
1981–2022 · peak 2014 (45 reports)
North Myrtle Beach
2002–2021 · peak 2014 (30 reports)
Charleston
1962–2022 · peak 2014 (11 reports)
Columbia
1968–2020 · peak 2015 (9 reports)
Greenville
1972–2021 · peak 2019 (7 reports)
Surfside Beach
2003–2020 · peak 2014 (7 reports)
Summerville
1969–2022 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Pawleys Island
1995–2022 · peak 2014 (11 reports)
Irmo
1971–2022 · peak 2020 (13 reports)
Conway
1997–2022 · peak 2014 (6 reports)
Rock Hill
1959–2019 · peak 2007 (5 reports)
Simpsonville
1998–2020 · peak 2012 (6 reports)
Garden City
1985–2020 · peak 2014 (9 reports)
Anderson
1975–2021 · peak 2013 (6 reports)
Florence
1975–2020 · peak 2013 (5 reports)
North Charleston
1975–2020 · peak 2014 (5 reports)
Lexington
1999–2019 · peak 2013 (6 reports)
Murrells Inlet
2003–2021 · peak 2012 (6 reports)
Sumter
1991–2021 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Easley
1991–2021 · peak 2020 (4 reports)
Edisto · SC, USA
Lingering ufo being pursued by military crafts
Irmo · SC, USA
MADAR Node 95
North Charleston (Folly Beach) · SC, USA
3 lights in a triangle formations changes shapes and 1 light vanishes
easley · SC, USA
I have never made one of these reports and I am reluctant to make this one. I am prior USAF SSGT, Retire after 23 years of government
Walhalla · SC, USA
3 yellowish orange unidentified oval shaped objects sighted over northern South Carolina.
Irmo · SC, USA
MADAR Node 95
Charleston · SC, USA
Bright brilliant white - looked like a comet. Fastest thing I’ve ever seen in the sky. ((////rocket launch??))
Harleyville · SC, USA
3 objects with bright flashing orange lights
Powdersville · SC, USA
Ball of light speeding through the air.
Saint Stephen · SC, USA
6 bright beam lights in cigar form size of football field hovered for two 20 second round one minute after the other. After roughly 8 m
Conway · SC, USA
As I am driving east on Hwy 501 in Conway, SC towards Myrtle Beach, SC, 7:40 PM, a large formation of bright orb like balls formed a pe
North Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
Orange orbs appeared and hovered off coast before moving towards beach, then they abruptly accelerated and extinguished their light
Simpsonville · SC, USA
An identical sighting almost one year after the first one over the SC sky
Greenville · SC, USA
No summary available.
GREER · SC, USA
9 bright orange color dots flying from northern sky
Charleston · SC, USA
Red glowing half-sphere
North Charleston · SC, USA
Bright white square-shaped craft with rounded corners and silver band hovers silently then disappears.
Bluffton · SC, USA
tricycle, back wheels blue lights, front red light, noise was loud roaring sound
Moncks Corner · SC, USA
We have a landfill in town. Something resembling a rocket took off from the area the landfill is at. It's also a methane processing pla
Blacksburg · SC, USA
I seen flashing that was not an airplane.
COLUMBIA · SC, USA
Noticed a bright light at high altitude >10,000 ft. Observed for a few minutes and noticed objects depending at high rate if speed. As
Gaston · SC, USA
same as reported on 9/30/2020 triangular craft in western sky at 280 degs, inclination is ~30 degs this is about 1 hr earlier than yest
Bennettsville · SC, USA
Second Triangular craft reported over Bennettsville
Gaston · SC, USA
repeating observation of object in westerly sky after sundown and before object sets, rapid flashing red, green white and blue
Bluffton · SC, USA
v shape with huge two back wheels had blue lights and the front red lights.