Columbia, SC, USA
Bright flashing orange-red object hovering lake Murray South Carolina. Up down back forth and zigzag movements.
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-02-02
- Where
- Columbia, SC, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 34.001, -81.035 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-columbia-sc-2015-bbb5b0
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
- Columbia, SC has 66 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 109 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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