CaseCircle2013

Charleston, SC, USA

I was sitting on a deck of a hotel facing the ocean. Not many people around and very few lights were on. I was facing the ocean and saw

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-10-10
Where
Charleston, SC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
32.776, -79.933 · exact
Slug
circle-over-charleston-sc-2013-d52b93
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

  • Charleston, SC has 72 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 159 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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