UFOMYST
CaseSphere2017

Hilton Head Island, SC, USA

Orange object moving rapidly through the sky. It then moved up and down rapidly before coming to a stop and soon disappearing completel

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-13
Where
Hilton Head Island, SC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
32.194, -80.738 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-hilton-head-island-sc-2017-df78ae
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 9 reports logged in Hilton Head Island, SC.
  • This case is one of 109 South Carolina reports filed in 2017.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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