Lodge, SC, USA
I saw 5 little lights circling a 6th larger light in CW rotation then the little lights stopped the rotated in the opposite dir..
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-15
- Where
- Lodge, SC, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 4 mins
- Geo
- 33.068, -80.954 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-lodge-sc-2005-cdbfea
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 1 reports logged in Lodge, SC.
- This case is one of 51 South Carolina reports filed in 2005.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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