UFO Sightings in South Carolina
2,109 UFO sightings reported in South Carolina since 1939, peaking in 2014 (260 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 2,109
- Span
- 1939–2022
- Peak year
- 2014 (260 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1939–2022 · peak 2014 (260 reports)
Top cities in South Carolina
Myrtle Beach
1981–2022 · peak 2014 (45 reports)
North Myrtle Beach
2002–2021 · peak 2014 (30 reports)
Charleston
1962–2022 · peak 2014 (11 reports)
Columbia
1968–2020 · peak 2015 (9 reports)
Greenville
1972–2021 · peak 2019 (7 reports)
Surfside Beach
2003–2020 · peak 2014 (7 reports)
Summerville
1969–2022 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Pawleys Island
1995–2022 · peak 2014 (11 reports)
Irmo
1971–2022 · peak 2020 (13 reports)
Conway
1997–2022 · peak 2014 (6 reports)
Rock Hill
1959–2019 · peak 2007 (5 reports)
Simpsonville
1998–2020 · peak 2012 (6 reports)
Garden City
1985–2020 · peak 2014 (9 reports)
Anderson
1975–2021 · peak 2013 (6 reports)
Florence
1975–2020 · peak 2013 (5 reports)
North Charleston
1975–2020 · peak 2014 (5 reports)
Lexington
1999–2019 · peak 2013 (6 reports)
Murrells Inlet
2003–2021 · peak 2012 (6 reports)
Sumter
1991–2021 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Easley
1991–2021 · peak 2020 (4 reports)
Mt. Pleasant · SC, USA
2 mysterious red and orange lights.
Charleston · SC, USA
I was sitting on a deck of a hotel facing the ocean. Not many people around and very few lights were on. I was facing the ocean and saw
Anderson · SC, USA
3 orange balls of light, that jet off one at a time in different directions!
Surfside/Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
Slow moving firey ball spotted at surfside beach sc.
Varnville · SC, USA
White light that beamed down and beamed up in literally 2 seconds.
Chapin · SC, USA
Orange ball in sky.
Surfside Beach · SC, USA
2 orange orbs seen in the night sky.
Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
One red light turns into four then flys away into sky.
Starr · SC, USA
On September ninth my wife and i noticed strange lights in the sky. Two white lights and a red light. I had noticed this the night befo
Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
On my last night vacationing on myrtle beach as i sat on the hotel balcony i saw orange circles appear over the ocean. They appeared an
Summerville · SC, USA
three hovering triangular objects in a stacked formation
Myrtle beach · SC, USA
Reddish orange lights on a cylinder shape appeared high in and sky and disappeared six people saw the object before it disappeared.
Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
Saw four orange lights appear over ocean then disappear.
Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
Fireballs in a line.
North Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
Fiery looking object, no sound, moved slowly at first then more rapidly and disappeared in the clouds.
Charleston (south) · SC, USA
Hovering craft, completely silent.
Greenwood · SC, USA
I was walking my friend home when we looked up a red and green light was moving north and we kept looking and it went down an came back
Cowpens · SC, USA
Orange ball seen over tree top theen disappeared with no sound or any trail behind it either.
Greenville · SC, USA
Greenville, SC, woman takes 2min13 video of ufos 20Sept2013 and broadcast on local Fox 21 TV.
Columbia · SC, USA
Five orange lights over columbia sc
Conway · SC, USA
UFO hovering above house with blinking lights which then floated north past tree line.
Andrews · SC, USA
Unexplained Object Seen From Back Porch.
Murrells Inlet · SC, USA
Triangle Lights over BrookGreen Gardens.
Longs · SC, USA
3 glowing spheres going completing dark and appearing in opposite direction.
Conway · SC, USA
Appears to be three red-orange independent objects with independent movement. White light much larger and simply vanised