NUFORC Reports for State SC

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Media	Explanation
Open	03/12/1995 23:41	Columbia	SC	USA		Driver & passenger witness "triad of extremely bright lights" in perfectly triangular pattern. Lights faded.	03/12/1995
Open	06/25/1995 19:00	Batesburg	SC	USA		Young man witnesses "very shiny obj., like egg" in N sky. Very bright, silver light. (Former mil., very familiar w/ aircraft.)	06/26/1995
Open	11/20/1995 19:12	Sumter	SC	USA		Woman repts. her husband had just witnessed two bizarre ships, "a round one, and a long torpedo-shaped obj.," pass overhead.	11/20/1995
Open	03/11/1996 00:00	Horry County	SC	USA		Sheriff's dept. relays: Citizen reported seeing a large obj. "w/ a ring of lights around it" rise from ground level. 2 deputies see.	03/11/1996
Open	01/14/1996 06:05	Charleston	SC	USA		Two men witnessed a large, white plume in the morning sky. (May have been Delta rocket launched from Cape Kennedy at 0600 hrs.)	01/16/1996
Open	06/05/1996 23:30	Lancaster	SC	USA		Man, wife, & son witness very bright obj. in night sky near moon. Obj. reptd. to move "a fist's width across sky." (Planet or star?)	06/05/1996
Open	06/15/1985 21:00	Ladson	SC	USA	Circle	football-sized round.red and green lightssequential in movement.150 ft above trees.moving about 5 mph. heading for Chasn. AFB.	03/24/1997
Open	10/30/1996 16:00	Goose Creek	SC	USA	cigar	blue lighted cigar slanted sighted over subdivison. was stationary then turned angle and shot up disappearing fast. 2 nights before s	06/25/1997
Open	07/20/1997 22:00	Conway	SC	USA	Diamond	The event took place near Conway, SC on 7/20/97. I saw an object that resembled a plane but it wasn't because it hovering about 2 to 3	07/21/1997
Open	12/05/1994 23:00	Sumter	SC	USA	Circle	Large object no engine noise, hovering 75 yards away. producing a light that made no shadows. after short hover time began climbing at	08/08/1997
Open	06/30/1966 21:00	Spartanburg	SC	USA	Light	Summer of 1966 - bright orange round object first thought to be rising full moon	10/04/1997
Open	07/12/1997 01:30	Gaston	SC	USA	light	I drive a sweeping truck for a living,and this night an employee and i were heading to our next stop,when we both noticed a red light s	11/24/1997
Open	12/07/1997 20:16	Mount Pleasant	SC	USA	Unknown	At 8:16pm on 12/07/97 An oblect with three bright lights was stoped in the road. When I tried to get out of my car to look...I don't kn	12/10/1997
Open	03/10/1998 19:00	Columbia	SC	USA	Diamond	Brightly lighted craft hovering over us on Interstate 26. Had lights shining down from the craft as well as lights shining up into the	03/16/1998
Open	12/10/1968 00:30	Abbeville (Lake Secession)	SC	USA	Disk	I had a close incounter with a UFO/(saucer/disc). Craft hoovered about ten feet over my head, backed off, lowered to eye level, then r	03/22/1998
Open	06/01/1962 12:00	Liberty Homes (near Charleston)	SC	USA	Sphere	I saw a circular object with lights going around the middle of it.	04/04/1998
Open	04/29/1998 06:25	Simpsonville	SC	USA	Light	While driving to work, I noticed a light just below high overcast. The object appeared to be traveling east to west.	05/05/1998
Open	01/01/1998 20:00	Graniteville	SC	USA	Disk	I was taking pictures of a full moon and did not see it until the pictures were developed. I don't know what to do with the picture (it	05/12/1998
Open	06/22/1998 22:30	Santee	SC	USA	Cylinder	I was fishing and as I looked up I saw 3 cylinder-shaped objects in a triangle formation. They had a wierd white glow to them. That (	06/23/1998
Open	09/15/1971 20:00	Blacksburg	SC	USA	Disk	I saw some bright lights moving over high voltage power lines.Object made right turn and went down behind some trees.I drove ahead and	07/05/1998
Open	09/22/1998 23:55	Ladson	SC	USA	Orb	At approx. 23:55 EST 09/22/98 what is best described as a small orb or disc passed at high rate of speed directly above witness and was	09/27/1998
Open	10/04/1998 21:00	Charleston	SC	USA	Fireball	The sky lit light heat lightening then the a ball of light was shooting across the sky. My thought was it looked like a Roman candle b	10/06/1998
Open	10/04/1998 21:10	Charleston	SC	USA	Flash	Observed very bright sky illumination over Charleston, SC. 1-2 seconds duration.	10/06/1998
Open	10/04/1998 21:00	James Island	SC	USA	Fireball	Meteor? Flash of brillant whiite light across sky in front of waxing full moon covered by cirrus clouds - then a fireball about the	10/06/1998
Open	10/04/1998 21:00	Charleston	SC	USA	Fireball	streaking blue/green fireball lit up sky. fireball going east to west and appeared to disintergrate after 3-4 seconds	10/06/1998
Open	10/04/1998 21:15	Goat Island/Isle of Palm (between, Intracoastal Waterway)	SC	USA	Fireball	glowing ball with fire-like tail shooting across sky from Atlantic Ocean toward United States...ball began to fade out then shot off ag	10/07/1998
Open	06/28/1998 23:00	Goat Island/Isle of Palm (between, Intracoastal Waterway)	SC	USA	Fireball	saw a glowing sphere with a tail shoot across the sky from the West to East (from US toward Atlantic Ocean)	10/07/1998
Open	10/04/1998 21:00	Charleston	SC	USA	Fireball	Saw a large reddish orange fireball with a long green tail..	10/11/1998
Open	10/15/1998 20:00	Fort Lawn	SC	USA	Light	I've seen these craft for a few years now, but only in cool/cold weather. They seem to have a leader, a large orange ball of light with	10/19/1998
Open	06/15/1973 06:00	Fort Lawn	SC	USA	Oval	When I was 6 or 7 years old, my sister and I were waiting early one morning to catch the school bus. Across from our stop there was no	10/19/1998
Open	09/05/1998 02:00	Charleston	SC	USA	Fireball	I work a Chas. AfB and I walked off an airplane and looked across the horizon and saw it moving horizontally. I have seen thousands of	10/30/1998
Open	11/07/1998 21:50	Isle of Palms	SC	USA	Cone	We were looking towards the city of Charleston from the Isle of Palms when we noticed an extremely bight orange object moving slowly ac	11/10/1998
Open	12/21/1998 02:10	Myrtle Beach	SC	USA	Disk	Spotted Medium Speed moving object heading NNW, below the clouds.	12/21/1998
Open	12/20/1998 19:30	Charleston	SC	USA	Sphere	Green flaming ball streaking from north to south with tail behind	12/23/1998
Open	04/10/1998 17:00	Charleston	SC	USA	Unknown	Walking down the outside fire escape looked up and saw several aircraft passing and the one in the middle was leaving a smoke ring trai	01/11/1999
Open	01/16/1998 17:00	Columbia (near Ft. Jackson)	SC	USA	Cone	Saw small cone shaped object near Fort Jackson army base.	01/21/1999
Open	09/15/1997 19:00	Wedgefield	SC	USA	Triangle	Traingle or 3 separate crafts in triang. formation over AFB bombing range.	02/17/1999
Open	01/18/1972 21:00	Blacksburg	SC	USA	Light	In the early 70's, four of us chased lights in the sky. ( we were in a vehicle )	03/28/1999
Open	06/01/1972 21:30	Greenville	SC	USA	Circle	Craft[ very bright green in color ] rose up above trees in a highly wooded area,zig zagged[like a climbing stairs motion]floated direc	05/09/1999
Open	07/04/1999 23:00	Mount Pleasant	SC	USA	Cigar	Hazy orange glow moving perpendicular to long cigar-shaped axis. Moved rapidly across sky.	07/06/1999
Open	03/01/1993 21:30	Greenville	SC	USA	Triangle	My friend and I were in a parking lot (there was a moon) heading to our vehicle. I looked up and saw what I thought at first were mete	08/21/1999
Open	09/04/1999 22:30	Summerville	SC	USA	Circle	((HOAX??)) I was stopped on dirt road in the woods and two bright objects passed over me.	09/04/1999
Open	07/01/1999 21:20	Clover	SC	USA	Light	On the night of the Sept.01,1999 I observed within the space of 10 minutes 2 meteorites followed by a burst of light seen in the sky (c	09/07/1999
Open	10/07/1999 06:45	Goose Creek	SC	USA	Disk	I took my dog outside to go to the bathroom and I noticed lights up in the sky - a row of them. They were blue-white lights - very bri	10/08/1999
Open	11/10/1999 20:15	Florence	SC	USA	Fireball	I heard your report on Art Bell radio show of the east coast sighting. I just wanted you all to know that I witnessed it myself here i	11/11/1999
Open	11/17/1999 17:20	Conway	SC	USA	Teardrop	looking to east-ne sky approx.30 degrees off horizon line,watched very slow movement of this object toward the horizon,brilliant, vivid	11/17/1999
Open	10/26/1999 12:00	Clinton	SC	USA	Triangle	The triangle was headed east and traveling at a steady speed until it got to some clouds and then it seemed to slow down and ease behin	11/18/1999
Open	06/30/1983 21:00	Wedgefield	SC	USA	Disk	was 14 or 15, was standing in front yard, waiting 4 my sister to get home, and glanced in the air, and there hovering over treetops, ac	12/15/1999
Open	02/03/2000 18:32	Summerville	SC	USA	Teardrop	While driving down the road we noticed a funny shaped light in the sky. I first thought it was a plane, but realized it was like no ot	02/03/2000
Open	07/20/1999 01:00	Myrtle Beach	SC	USA	Triangle	i saw three objects that where moving at very high speeds	02/14/2000
Open	02/03/2000 19:10	Dillon	SC	USA	Triangle	Very bright light with flaring out particles. long trail behind it. no pulsation of lights, just a bright steady white light, as if a c	02/18/2000
Open	06/01/1967 01:00	Edgemoor	SC	USA	Disk	Myself and 3 friends witnessed a circular shaped craft in the spring of 1967 hovering over a railroad track.	03/12/2000
Open	09/17/1999 06:10	White Rock	SC	USA	Circle	On September 17, 1999 in White Rock, SC a bright circular object was spotted in the northern sky. As a airliner aproached it moved to t	03/21/2000
Open	03/29/2000 00:00	Belton	SC	USA	Changing	A strange formation of 9 UFOs flew in an undetermined pattern over an abandoned field for approximately 5 minutes.	03/30/2000
Open	05/05/2000 21:50	Simpsonville	SC	USA	Light	Observed curious point light source about 20 degrees above horizon. Source seemed to be flashing red to blue-green and slowly receded.	05/05/2000
Open	04/28/1997 00:25	Williamston	SC	USA	Triangle	20ft. from the road and 150ft. up a trianguler craft was hovering silently.	05/25/2000
Open	06/01/1968 21:00	Columbia	SC	USA	Triangle	When I was 10, both me and my brother saw a triangular-shaped UFO floating in front of our house.	06/02/2000
Open	07/01/1976 21:00	Charleston	SC	USA		i was standing on the maindeck of anavy ship in port watching the lighting of athunderstorm ,i saw a solid bar of green light appear in	06/03/2000
Open	06/05/2000 22:00	Conway	SC	USA	Triangle	22:00 HOURS CONWAY SOUTH CAROLINE TRIANGLER SHAPED OBJECT SIGHTED MOVING ERRATICALLY TOWARDS WEST.	06/09/2000
Open	08/08/2000 22:00	Garden City	SC	USA	Orb	Orange balls of light over the ocean fading in and out	08/12/2000
Open	06/01/1978 21:00	Columbia	SC	USA	Circle	A large circular craft with many different colored lights blinking around it (like they were windows or lights on the craft).	10/05/2000
Open	12/29/2000 22:00	Greenville	SC	USA	Unknown	high bright light travelling west, then stopped.	12/29/2000
Open	01/04/2001 16:00	Anderson	SC	USA	Cigar	White large object without wings,above 30,000 feet moving very slowy toward the NNW	01/25/2001
Open	01/26/2001 00:10	Beaufort	SC	USA	Diamond	Three silent objects seen in Beaufort, SC for nearly thirty minutes	01/25/2001
Open	02/05/2001 21:15	Saluda	SC	USA	Unknown	A bright colored light was 200 feet above the trees going very slowly without sound in Saluda County	02/05/2001
Open	02/05/2001 22:00	Laurens	SC	USA	Light	Bright light and several others and it went completely out	02/06/2001
Open	08/10/1974 18:00	Greenville	SC	USA	Rectangle	I HAVE NEVER REPORTED THIS BEFORE NOW, BECAUSE THE FEW CLOSE FRIENDS THAT I TOLD ABOUT THIS GAVE ME THIS STRANGE LOOK. YOU MUST BE CRA	02/07/2001
Open	02/14/2001 22:00	Ninety Six	SC	USA	Light	A flash of light went across the lake	02/13/2001
Open	02/15/2001 11:16	Spartanburg	SC	USA	Cylinder	It seemed to have lights all around it and it seemed to be in the shape of a cyclinder.	02/16/2001
Open	11/01/1993 23:30	Trio	SC	USA	Circle	Huge bright object with no noise rose up out of woods behind my house!!	02/25/2001
Open	03/02/2001 12:31	St. George	SC	USA	Oval	It was oval shaped with several lights, and about the length of a pickup.	03/02/2001
Open	04/02/2001 07:25	Anderson	SC	USA	Light	Pinprick of blue-white light seen from the interstate that blurred in almost a digital fashion , seen early in the morning.	04/03/2001
Open	07/01/1995 03:15	Myrtle Beach	SC	USA	Light	Odd lights seen over ocean in Myrtle Beach, SC.	04/05/2001
Open	06/20/2000 23:00	Ware Shoals	SC	USA	Unknown	The object at first appeared like a satellite however it slowed and became very bright then the object faded a bounced toward space.	04/17/2001
Open	06/24/1984 19:00	Columbia	SC	USA	Oval	I do not know whats going on. I have strange dreams of very hightech information thats ruining my life.	06/01/2001
Open	10/01/1972 23:00	Pickens/Pumpkintown	SC	USA	Chevron	Slowly moving boomerang shape with four bluish-white lights on each leading edge; made a humming sound.	06/08/2001
Open	06/16/2001 22:30	Folly Beach	SC	USA	Teardrop	teardrop shape, bright, lime-green glowing orb	06/20/2001
Open	06/19/2001 21:33	Columbia	SC	USA	Light	My friend and I observed a bright light that appeared to be a star, zig-zagging up and down while going straigt, at a very fast speed.	06/21/2001
Open	07/21/2001 22:39	Fort Mill	SC	USA	Light	Object of light seen in the sky	07/21/2001
Open	07/15/1980 22:00	Fort Mill	SC	USA	Light	I saw 3 separate red lights flying together-went in a semicircle then went up at the same speed and disappeared.	08/09/2001
Open	06/15/1986 21:00	Princeton	SC	USA	Other	CLOSE 100FT UFO VISIT	10/09/2001
Open	10/29/2001 20:00	Lexington	SC	USA	Circle	Three aircraft hovering in different locations for long period of time. Alternating green, white, red lights.	10/29/2001
Open	12/17/2001 07:10	Lake City	SC	USA	Sphere	we was standing outside and one big orange looking circle light lit up, and then 2 or 3 more lit up right beside the first in a zig zag	12/17/2001
Open	12/16/2001 21:00	Lake City	SC	USA	Light	it was like a light just sitting in the air and it just went out and it light up in a zigzag pattern and the light just went out for a	12/20/2001
Open	12/22/2001 16:40	Bennettsville	SC	USA	Orb	This was no plane,It was metallic,no lights and it did not move till it was ready.	12/24/2001
Open	10/01/1991 14:45	Easley	SC	USA	Other	Hockey-puck-shaped-thing.	01/29/2002
Open	10/05/1959 19:00	Rock Hill	SC	USA	Triangle	WE LOST A HOUR OF OUR LIFE WE WERE STANDING ON THE ROAD THE CAR WAS OVER A HILL My mom told me that when she was young (I guessed a	01/30/2002
Open	02/02/2000 20:00	Rock Hill (and surrounding cities)	SC	USA	Light	Balls of lght in a snowstorm.	01/30/2002
Open	02/06/2002 21:00	Irmo	SC	USA	Triangle	3 steady white lights, triangular formation with a red blinking light in the center.	02/08/2002
Open	12/03/2001 20:00	Columbia	SC	USA	Fireball	I saw a flaming object falling from the sky at a tremendous rate of speed.	02/24/2002
Open	02/12/2002 01:00	Sniders Crossroads	SC	USA	Unknown	object above the treeline with no sound	02/26/2002
Open	09/10/1964 22:00	Spartanburg/Greenville (near)	SC	USA	Disk	It is just the plain truth about a craft that made a lasting impression in my mind as I looked it over.	03/13/2002
Open	04/23/2002 02:00	Greenville	SC	USA	Light	I am sure that I was awake, and I wasn't hurt at all.	04/24/2002
Open	09/12/1999 10:00	Darlington	SC	USA	Disk	We saw two objects flying in the air in Darlington.	05/13/2002
Open	05/23/2002 23:00	Wedgefield	SC	USA	Light	Entourage of pairs of lights which changed to single file, then leaped up toward the sky.	05/25/2002
Open	06/10/2002 00:00	Isle of Palms	SC	USA	Orb	Mysterious Orb floats up on beach shore it is unidentified and will be destroyed	06/13/2002
Open	09/16/1986 18:00	New Ellington	SC	USA	Other	While driving near a nuclear plant in South Carolina, my wife and i spotted a wingless, oblong shaped aircraft.	06/21/2002
Open	06/07/2002 23:45	Mt. Carmel campgrounds	SC	USA		Green rectangular lights appearing erratically	06/30/2002
Open	06/30/2002 10:00	Travelers Rest	SC	USA	Light	Well we walked out own the back porch to relax a little. Outside there were thunder storms in the area and also heat lighting. I look	06/30/2002
Open	07/09/2002 23:45	Abbeville	SC	USA	Triangle	UFO visits small town USA.	07/09/2002
Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Media	Explanation