St. George, SC, USA
Shooting star but started with a bright white light and turned to orange and then disappeared.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-14
- Where
- St. George, SC, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1
- Geo
- 33.186, -80.576 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-st-george-sc-2020-849923
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
- St. George, SC shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 116 reports came from South Carolina in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 1.1% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
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.