CaseDisk1962
Charleston, SC, USA
In the summer of 1962, a witness near an air base in Charleston, South Carolina, reported a flying disk-shaped object in the sky, visible for about five minutes.
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 (161 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1962-06-01
- Where
- Charleston, SC, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 32.776, -79.933 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-charleston-sc-1962-07c762
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In context
- Charleston, SC shows up 72 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from South Carolina in 1962.
- In the 1960s, 23.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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