Isle of Palms, SC, USA
Large ball of light changing color and 4 small flashing lights all in separate areas in the sky
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-22
- Where
- Isle of Palms, SC, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2hrs
- Geo
- 32.787, -79.795 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-isle-of-palms-sc-2009-8f16f3
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
- This is one of 20 reports logged in Isle of Palms, SC.
- This case is one of 68 South Carolina reports filed in 2009.
- Flash craft made up 1.8% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.