Charleston, SC, USA
Bomerang shaped blue haze followed by what appeared to be a star, then a flash like a firework explosion.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-04-29
- Where
- Charleston, SC, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 32.776, -79.933 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-charleston-sc-2005-0e6175
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
- Charleston, SC shows up 72 times across the archive.
- 51 reports came from South Carolina in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.