CaseFlash1998
Charleston, SC, USA
Observed very bright sky illumination over Charleston, SC. 1-2 seconds duration.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-04
- Where
- Charleston, SC, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1-2 seconds
- Geo
- 32.776, -79.933 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-charleston-sc-1998-b431b3
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Charleston, SC reports filed in October 1998.
In context
- Charleston, SC shows up 72 times across the archive.
- 26 reports came from South Carolina in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 1.3% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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