CaseOther2016

Simpsonville, SC, USA

Burning object in the sky with balls of molten material falling from it.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-12-23
Where
Simpsonville, SC, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
34.737, -82.254 · exact
Slug
other-over-simpsonville-sc-2016-5154b7
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 31 documented reports from Simpsonville, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 97 sightings in 2016.
  • Other sightings ran at 6.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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