UFOMYST
CaseLight1966

Spartanburg, SC, USA

Summer of 1966 - bright orange round object first thought to be rising full moon

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-06-30
Where
Spartanburg, SC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 min
Geo
34.950, -81.932 · exact
Slug
light-over-spartanburg-sc-1966-9facc7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

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In context

  • Spartanburg, SC shows up 17 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from South Carolina in 1966.
  • In the 1960s, 11.3% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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