UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Gaffney, SC, USA

((HOAX??)) Lights in the sky. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Low12/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (18 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2016-06-17
Where
Gaffney, SC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
not sure lost sight behin
Geo
35.072, -81.650 · exact
Slug
circle-over-gaffney-sc-2016-b69ceb
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Gaffney, SC has 10 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 97 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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