Aiken County (rural), SC, USA
Six hunters see peculiar cluster of lights descend to the ground, hover, then streak off. ((NUFORC Note: Case resolved; flares. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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 (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2011-12-14
- Where
- Aiken County (rural), SC, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.544, -81.635 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-aiken-county-rural-sc-2011-320934
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
- Aiken County (rural), SC has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 117 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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