Piedmont, SC, USA
Bright light like a star at night but was day time shot across the sky and blinked once then disappeared
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-20
- Where
- Piedmont, SC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 34.702, -82.465 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-piedmont-sc-2019-273430
Part of a wave
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
- One of 5 documented reports from Piedmont, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Carolina logged 115 sightings in 2019.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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