CaseTeardrop2015

Anderson, SC, USA

Bright white Lights. No flashing qualities of comm. aviation. 1 mi. ahead from coordinates in car when images were taken.

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: 55s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-07-12
Where
Anderson, SC, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
55 seconds
Geo
34.503, -82.650 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-anderson-sc-2015-205fb6
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…

In context

  • Anderson, SC shows up 27 times across the archive.
  • 109 reports came from South Carolina in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Report

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