Fort Jackson, SC, USA
Two soldiers at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, reported observing a disk-shaped object while on guard duty during a 15-minute sighting in November 1967.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (151 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-11-15
- Where
- Fort Jackson, SC, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 34.013, -80.712 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-fort-jackson-sc-1967-a1517c
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Fort Jackson, SC has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1967 brought 3 reports from South Carolina.
- The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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