CaseTriangle2017

Santee, SC, USA

Large triangle ship with 3 white lights and flashing orange light, flew very low, with no sound. ((NUFORC Note: Jet a/c?? 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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-11-20
Where
Santee, SC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3-4 minutes
Geo
33.475, -80.486 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-santee-sc-2017-549c30
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

  • Santee, SC has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 109 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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