CaseUnknown2018

Hickory Grove, SC, USA

As we were heading home on hwy 97west, I saw what appeared to be big bright white blinking lights. I first thought it was an airplan

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-10-04
Where
Hickory Grove, SC, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
34.983, -81.416 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-hickory-grove-sc-2018-d631cd
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Hickory Grove, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 78 sightings in 2018.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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