CaseCircle2002
St. Simons Island, GA, USA
On the beach at sunrise, my partner and I witnessed a silver-colored orb flying above the clouds. It was shaped as a circle, 1/2 cm ro
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-05
- Where
- St. Simons Island, GA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 31.151, -81.370 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-st-simons-island-ga-2002-a34262
In context
- St. Simons Island, GA shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 42 reports came from Georgia in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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