North charleston, SC, USA
While starting a shift at 6am at a water front facility a equipment operator was starting machine and noticed up to 9 bright lights in
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-20
- Where
- North charleston, SC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- ~10 minutes
- Geo
- 32.855, -79.975 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-north-charleston-sc-2019-4eaa6d
Part of a wave
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 26 reports logged in North charleston, SC.
- This case is one of 115 South Carolina reports filed in 2019.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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