CaseCircle2020

Belton, SC, USA

We saw (what I counted) 12 round orbs following one another at an exact distance from one another ((Starlink satellites??))

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-04-28
Where
Belton, SC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
34.523, -82.494 · exact
Slug
circle-over-belton-sc-2020-3fbdf8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Belton, SC has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 116 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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