Folly Beach, SC, USA
Approx. 100 yards away from house. Red sphere that gradually diminished over 15 mins.
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 (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-11-28
- Where
- Folly Beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 32.655, -79.940 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-folly-beach-sc-2013-dac725
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
- This is one of 14 reports logged in Folly Beach, SC.
- This case is one of 159 South Carolina reports filed in 2013.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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