CaseLight2003

Charlston, NC, USA

((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax? PD)) Cloud over the ocean at night, glowing from within, duration around 10 minutes. We saw no craft.

Report quality: Low0/100

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 (96 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2003-06-03
Where
Charlston, NC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
Slug
light-over-charlston-nc-2003-6062e6

In context

  • Charlston, NC shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 82 reports came from North Carolina in 2003.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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