UFOMYST
CaseFireball2021

Summerville, SC, USA

My sons were in the yard. They saw this gold- illuminated, flickering but not flashing, as if made of fire. No other lights....pure gol

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 75s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-07-23
Where
Summerville, SC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1-1.5 minutes
Geo
33.019, -80.176 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-summerville-sc-2021-8da137
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Summerville, SC has 42 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 41 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2020s skewed 3.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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