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)
Union · SC, USA
Saucer like craft followed me home from work and hovered over our home while my wife and I watched..
Rock Hill · SC, USA
Rock Hill, SC - 1988- circle of flashing lights slowly appeared, one light at a time, then, flashing faster and faster, zoomed out of s
Orangeburg · SC, USA
Orangeburg, S.C. to Augusta, GA. - fall 1986 - lights following car - multiple witnessess. Radio request for sighters
New Ellington · SC, USA
While driving near a nuclear plant in South Carolina, my wife and i spotted a wingless, oblong shaped aircraft.
Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
7 Colored Balls of Light seen north of beach acess at 82nd Ave N. in Myrtle Beach,SC Aug 1986
Princeton · SC, USA
CLOSE 100FT UFO VISIT
Camden · SC, USA
Saucer shaped the length of a football field
Garden City · SC, USA
6 equal size round amber colored lights equal distance apart, stationary for at least 2 hours.
Ladson · SC, USA
football-sized round.red and green lightssequential in movement.150 ft above trees.moving about 5 mph. heading for Chasn. AFB.
Columbia · SC, USA
I do not know whats going on. I have strange dreams of very hightech information thats ruining my life.
Columbia/Denmark (between; on US 321) · SC, USA
Large object with lights at tree top level.
Ocean Isle Beach · SC, USA
The saucer shone in the sun ,defied gravity, whirred & angled out to sea ,at leasure&then at fantastic speed.
Darlington · SC, USA
I saw the pilot of this craft, and it picked me up .phm I'm t t t.
Wedgefield · SC, USA
was 14 or 15, was standing in front yard, waiting 4 my sister to get home, and glanced in the air, and there hovering over treetops, ac
Rock Hill · SC, USA
long cigar shaped UFO
Walhalla · SC, USA
me and my father was traveling up a mountain road in 1981 or 82 when we was going thru highsaw gap,the time was at dusk and not quite c
Georgetown · SC, USA
Triangular shape over Georgetown, early 1980's
Wedgefield · SC, USA
Wedgefield SC sighting
Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
2 lights zig zag in sky
Fort Mill · SC, USA
I saw 3 separate red lights flying together-went in a semicircle then went up at the same speed and disappeared.
Spartanburg · SC, USA
UFO IN SC LOOKED JUST LIKE A PLANES FLASHING LIGHTS IN THE NIGHT SKY
Ft. Jackson · SC, USA
Falshing light
Ballentine · SC, USA
Silver Craft almost hit by our boat, and disappears into the sky in a flash, on Lake Murray S.C.
Lake Wateree (on) · SC, USA
On a midweek night in late August 1979, I, my oldest son Eric, his friend who was home on leave from the Army and Mr. Lee Grant, owner
Fort Mill · SC, USA
Small circular object took out the tops of trees