CaseOval2011
Charleston, SC, USA
Slow, moving, multicolored object above the sky in Charleston, SC.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-08-28
- Where
- Charleston, SC, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30/+ mins
- Geo
- 32.776, -79.933 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-charleston-sc-2011-19ddf5
Wave
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.
- 117 reports came from South Carolina in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.