Moncks Corner, SC, USA
Bright red-orange sphere seen by homeowner from back yard. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch?? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2014-02-19
- Where
- Moncks Corner, SC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- ~20 seconds
- Geo
- 33.196, -80.014 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-moncks-corner-sc-2014-9ac9b8
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
- Moncks Corner, SC shows up 18 times across the archive.
- 260 reports came from South Carolina in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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.