CaseFormation2005

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

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  • 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
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

  • 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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