UFOMYST
Caselight1997

Gaston, SC, USA

I drive a sweeping truck for a living,and this night an employee and i were heading to our next stop,when we both noticed a red light s

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-12
Where
Gaston, SC, USA
Shape
light
Duration
10-15sec
Geo
33.817, -81.101 · exact
Slug
light-over-gaston-sc-1997-0936e9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Gaston, SC has 12 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 11 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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