UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2010

Columbia, SC, USA

Nearly stationary teardrop shaped with short contrail over Richland County

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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-10-22
Where
Columbia, SC, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
15 - 20 minutes
Geo
34.001, -81.035 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-columbia-sc-2010-c09513
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 66 reports logged in Columbia, SC.
  • This case is one of 70 South Carolina reports filed in 2010.
  • Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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