CaseFormation2016

Conway, SC, USA

3 orange lights followed by 5 blue/white flashing lights rotating across 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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-12-01
Where
Conway, SC, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.836, -79.048 · exact
Slug
formation-over-conway-sc-2016-ffc7cb
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…

In context

  • One of 38 documented reports from Conway, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 97 sightings in 2016.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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