Galivants Ferry, SC, USA
3 bright red lights appeared over the tree line and changed colors for about 5-8 minutes
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-09-09
- Where
- Galivants Ferry, SC, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10min
- Geo
- 34.056, -79.246 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-galivants-ferry-sc-2008-efb77b
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
- Galivants Ferry, SC shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 46 reports came from South Carolina in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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