North Augusta, SC, USA
Glowing round object hovered in sky going eastward from North Augusta/Edgefield area.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-04
- Where
- North Augusta, SC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.502, -81.965 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-north-augusta-sc-2011-80beac
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
- North Augusta, SC shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 117 reports came from South Carolina in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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