CaseCircle2017

Goose Creek, SC, USA

For a little over a month I would go outside and enjoy a cigar or just return home from anywhere from 10:30 to 11 pm and notice weird a

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: 233s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-05-04
Where
Goose Creek, SC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 minutes 53 seconds
Geo
32.981, -80.033 · exact
Slug
circle-over-goose-creek-sc-2017-f78a60
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

  • Goose Creek, SC shows up 20 times across the archive.
  • 109 reports came from South Carolina in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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