Charleston, SC, USA
Near Charleston, South Carolina on August 20, 1965, witnesses reported a fiery sphere making six abrupt 15-degree course changes within about 30 seconds.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (153 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-08-20
- Where
- Charleston, SC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 32.776, -79.933 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-charleston-sc-1965-25f760
Part of a wave
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'…
In context
- Charleston, SC shows up 72 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from South Carolina in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 7.8% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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