UFOMYST
CaseSphere2018

Santee, SC, USA

Spherical light seen over Santee from the Summerton side of Lake Marion by the I-95 bridge. ((NUFORC Note: Aviation specialist. PD))

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-02-06
Where
Santee, SC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
33.475, -80.486 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-santee-sc-2018-782bad
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

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In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Santee, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 78 sightings in 2018.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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