CaseLight2020

Joanna, SC, USA

Bright object western SC for over 4 hours. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus?? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2020-03-17
Where
Joanna, SC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4 hours
Geo
34.415, -81.812 · exact
Slug
light-over-joanna-sc-2020-fe1a10
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Joanna, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 116 sightings in 2020.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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