CaseLight2003
Isle of Palms, SC, USA
very bright orange light moving steadily across the sky being pursued by an airplane
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-01-17
- Where
- Isle of Palms, SC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 32.787, -79.795 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-isle-of-palms-sc-2003-17da88
In context
- Isle of Palms, SC shows up 20 times across the archive.
- 63 reports came from South 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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