South Carolina UFO Sightings in 2005

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While driving down Dorchester Road just before Old Orangeburg Rd. my son pointed out strange lights in the sky. As i looked up i thought it was a satelite, but as i looked closer I could see the lights were on an object which was stationary in the sky just to the south of our location.

We rushed home and grabbed my video camera and headed back to the spot where we had spotted the object but it was no where to be seen.

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Five lights created a triangular shape that darted and bounced around for about one hour. At first I thought it was an airplane in the distance, but then it continued to hover and bounce around in the same area for about an hour. It had one bright light in the middle and a smaller light directly above the bright light and three small lights in a horizontal row below the birght light, giving it a triangular arrangement of the lights.

I woke my little sister up to prove to myself that I was not dreaming or halucinating. We watched the object for about an hour before returning to bed around 5:00 am. It seemed to be shooting flares to either side and the light changed from white to red and green or blue.

It was rather far away, but it was obvious that it was moving in a pattern that was not consistent with that of an airplane or helecopter. At times it would dart in a diagonal direction and then bounce around then dart in another direction and bounce some more. The light grew brighter then dimmed several times while we were watching it.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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While I was in my front yard I saw a strange object above my house. It was on a Friday night December 23, 2005 at 10:45 P.M.

I was out in my front yard. I observed an object. It was round on the top and got narrower going to the bottom, round and narrow on the bottom and got wider going to the top the object looked like a top.

It was all yellow lighted with red vertical lines all around the sides and it had an orange light in the middle of the top and in the middle of the bottom. It hovered over the house. And then it was still then it got down lower and went over the neighbors house.

Then I looked up and it disappeared and it was gone. I didn't see the object no more. It made no sound.

It was partly cloudy. I looked around the house and I still didn't see it no more. It was gone.

I was wondering what this object was I saw and where it came from.

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My son and i were out side walking and looked up and saw a light moving in the sky, it was white and was moving from south to north. It was not a plane for sure. About 20 min went by and we both saw two more.

Now we can go out and see them just about any night we want between 7:30 and 8:00pm.what are they? ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).

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WHILE HANGING OUT IN THE BACKYARD ON THE PATIO WE SAW SOME UFOS. On the night of December 15, 2005 on a Thursday night at 8:35 P.M.

I was at a nearby neighbors house with some friends. We were in the backyard we were grilling italian sausage on the outdoor grills out in the backyard. And we were on the patio.

We saw 3 circle UFOS. All three circle UFOS were round and on the inside of the bottom they had red, yellow, and pink lights and they emitted orange beams. Then all three circle UFOS were a roquefort blue (what I mean by a roquefort blue they looked like roquefort and blue cheese salad dressing they had light blue lights and the lights on the inside of the bottom looked like ROQUEFORT SALAD DRESSING and light blue lights) all three UFOS were a roquefort blue and on the inside of the bottom they had roquefort blue lights then all three circle UFOS on the inside of the bottom had red, yellow, and green lights then red, yellow, and purple lights then all three circle UFOS on the inside of the bottom had red and orange lights mainly red lights and they emitted roquefort blue beams.

Then all three of these circle UFOS disappeared. Then 2 triangler UFOS showed up they were white lighted and had red dots at every corner then blue lighted with pink dots at every corner then yellow lighted with red dots at every corner and they emitted red and yellow beams and left a trial. Then they disappeard then a huge cone UFO showed up it was red on the top and yellow on the bottom then it disappeard.

All 6 of these UFOS. The 3 circle UFOS, the 2 triangler UFOS, and the cone UFO were going toward the ocean to folley beach when they disappeared I guess they crashed out in the ocean. It was a clear night there was no sound to these UFOS except the trianger UFO they had a whistling sound when they were yellow lighted with red dots at every corner.

We saw all of these UFOS when we were out on the patio and we were grilling italian sausage on the outdoor grills out in the backyard. We were all done grilling our italian sausage on the outdoor grills out in the backyard. We had cokes and dr peppers to drink as we were grilling.

It was surprising to see these UFOS that we saw me and my neighbors. ((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no e-address. We have received no other reports about the alleged incident, which seems unusual to us, given how dramatic the witness claims it was, and given how long the alleged event lasted.

However, please see report from Orlando, FL, for the same date and approximately the same time. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: One of several reports from the same source, apparently of the same event. Please see other reports from the vicinity of James Island.

PD)).

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Hovering triangle shaped aircraft that the military DID see no matter what they report to the public. We were outside smoking cigarettes. I had a 3 month old in my house and my cousin's 2 week old baby was inside as well so now you can see why we were sitting outside on a cool fall, almost winter evening.

It was almost dusk and about 5 miles away we could see something flying and it had a bright light so we figured police copters looking for drugs. It was very low to the ground. It is normal to see cops looking for pot fields around here and if they think they have a moving meth lab the copter is out too.

So we were watching cuz this is a small town. We all know each other if we aren't already related to them or married into the family. And it happened to be over top where a lot of my friends and family lived so I was really curious.

So here we are cracking jokes about which friend/family member it could be and It darted sideways up! Totally from the left side at the bottom of the sky to the far right and high. After we were through freaking out at how it did that, then it dawned on us what happened and we started saying ufo! And we came in and got everyone in my house to go outside and look. (of course we told them we thought it was cops and how it darted there in the sky.

) This thing hovered. It didn't move. I tried to take pictures of it but I have a pretty crappy cam when it comes to taking pictures of the sky.

Even when we have a huge full moon that is bright I can't even get a dot on my cam. But I tried anyway. It wasn't like the thing was going anywhere.

I got a blurry spot in the blackness of the sky with these pics BTW. We had been watching it for about 20 minutes when a passenger plane started it's nightly route to where ever. We watched this plane go straight towards it and we were like, "It's going to move" and it didn't.

The plane kinda moved around it. It was like maybe 30 minutes after that we had military aircraft flying towards it. The funny thing was we were like "should we call the air force? call the police? call someone?" and we pretty basically agreed no that if the military was involved they would say it was one of theirs they were testing or a weather ballon or something like that.

What could local police do? And we thought if we called the local tv station they would laugh at us. So we just sat there talking and watching. Well here comes the military and we were like "YEAH! Now it is going to get interesting.

" And we watched 4 air craft fly up towards it and go completely around it like they were circling this object of prey. It was as if there was an invisible barrier stopping air craft from getting close because we used the trees as guides and we could tell before they got to a certain tree they would go around. We watched the military planes for a long time play cat and mouse and finally the object moved a tiny bit.

And then it disappeared. Now what I really found odd was the planes still could not go into the area of the sky that the object occupied. After the military left we came in and warmed up and that is when my mom told me she had seen the same object before from her bedroom window one night and she watched it for hours because it scared her.

She saw it in summer on the other side of town in a completely different year. Well when we went out (we walk people to the door if not their car still here in the south) it was back, in the same place. My cousin says, "They cloaked!" He was convinced they cloaked themselves and hid.

And we watched it for a minute or two but it was too cold to stay out there. So every little bit I would walk out my back door and look at it and it would still be there. I went to sleep at 12 that night and when I went to bed it was still there.

A few weeks later, my cousin and his wife who were here that night and living in the same house my mom lived in when she saw the object that summer night, called me at like 6 am telling me they had been watching it stince about 2 am when they went out to smoke. And they reported they saw it two or three more times after that too. Plus as of 6-21-2006 they are still reporting seeing this object at my aunt's house.

I will go in to my paint shop pro and try to make a pic of what it looked like-well the lights on it. I can't draw the ship. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate.

PD)).

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Nighttime multiple-witness sighting of a large black triangle on Highway 25 near Ware Shoals, SC. I was visiting my parents in Greenwood, S.C.

over Thanksgiving. The Friday after the holiday, the three of us drove to the nearest city, Greenville, to do some Christmas shopping and to see a movie. Greenwood is a small city in a rural part of Upstate South Carolina, and the part of Highway 25 we were on is fairly isolated.

There are a few homes here and there, but not a lot of development. Consequently, the road is quiet and on a clear night like the one in question, the stars are clearly visible. Around 10:30 or 11 p.

m., I pointed out to my dad that the star on the horizon was particularly clear and beautiful, and he looked and said that while it was very pretty, he thought it was a planet because it looked too bright and large to be a star. My mom said that whatever it was, it looked awfully weird.

The closer we got, the stranger it looked. I suggested that it might be a cell phone tower, and my dad disagreed, because the light on a cell phone tower would be red, and this light was white, like a star. That's when I realized that the object had changed positions in the sky.

It had moved from the right side of the sky -- the passenger side, based on my position in the car -- to the left side of the sky, and it was definitely getting larger and closer. It's difficult for me to estimate how many miles we drove until it was directly overhead, but curiosity got the better of us in the little town of Ware Shoals, which is about 20 miles from Greenwood. My dad pulled into the median in front of the Burger King and he and I got out of the car and looked up.

A large triangular craft slowly floated over us. Size in feet is hard for me to estimate and it's been a little while since this happened. I don't want my memory to inflate the measurement, but it was definitely larger than your average low-flying plane.

If the sun had been out, it would have cast a shadow that would have covered me, my dad and his SUV. If I had put my hands above my head to blot it out of my vision, I couldn't have done it. The craft was black and shaped like an equilateral triangle with rounded corners.

There were bluish-white lights at each corner and a red light on each of the three sides between the bluish-white lights. It didn't make any sound at all and it floated at an even pace right over the tops of the pine trees. It seemed to be so close to the tops of the trees that I thought it might brush them as it passed over.

I know very little about military aircraft, but I looked up photos of stealth planes later to see if I could find what we saw. It wasn't a B-2, I'm sure of it, because B-2s have a W-shape in the back and what we saw was a solid triangle. It wasn't a Nighthawk either.

Both of those planes are too angular. I'm absolutely certain the corners of the triangle were rounded. When it passed over -- it didn't shoot off at Warp 9 or anything, it just floated over the trees and out of sight -- my dad and I got back in the car.

Less than a minute elapsed between the time we stopped the car and the time we got back in. I asked him what we had just seen and he said he didn't know, which surprised me because he's always been interested in military technology. We didn't talk much until we got home.

We haven't discussed it since. Recently, I described the sighting to my boyfriend's father, a retired engineer who developed the engines for the B-2 and the F-117. He said that what I was describing did not match the description of any of our known stealth aircraft.

I am a graduate of Clemson University and I hold a Bachelor of Arts in communication. At the time of the sighting, I worked as a newspaper reporter. I am now employed at an advertising agency as a copywriter.

My father holds a Bachelor of Science in business and is a retired executive of a multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. My mother is a high school graduate and a homemaker.

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BIG SAUCER GOING OVER FOLLEY BEACH WE SAW IT FROM OUR HOTEL. I was in the Hotel parking lot at my hotel and I saw a big saucer go over the hotel over the ocean and it was red lighted and had pink in the middle of it. It went over the ocean.

I went out on the public pier and I still saw it. There were people walking along the beach as well. I was with a friend we walked back from the pier to the hotel parking lot and we still saw it way out over the sea.

Then we lost sight of the object. Other people on the beach and the pier must have saw it. It was 10:40 P.

M. on 11-22-2005 when we saw this saucer over the hotel and pier.

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RECTANGLER OBJECT OVER A CONVENIENT STORE OF THE FREEWAY. I was with a friend at the all night convenient store on INTERSTATE 26 at Rivers Road. We looked up and saw a rectangler object looking like a UFO.

It had red, yellow, orange, blue, green, purple, pink, and white lights. It changed to all red and yellow lights. It emitted red and yellow and orange and blue and purple beams.

It was over our car and the lights were blinking. This was 11/22/2005 at 8:55 P.M.

that night. We saw the object move to the west and we got gas and got cokes in the convenient store. We came out and still saw the object and then we lost sight of the object.

It left a trial and a haze. We kept looking and still didn't see the object no more.

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WHILE ME AND MY NEIGHBOR FRIENDS WERE JUST SHOOTING THE BULL AND WERE HANGING OUT WE SAW SOME EXITING UFO. On Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 7.40 P.

M. I was at a nearby neighbors house with some friends we were out in the backyard on the patio. We were grilling barbecue ribs, barbecue chicken, and steaks on the outdoor grills out in the backyard.

We looked up and saw 3 circle UFOS. On the inside of the bottom they had red, yellow, and green lights then red, yellow, and purple lights then they were a roquefort blue (what I mean by a roquefort blue they looked like roquefort and blue cheese salad dressing the lights on the inside of the bottom looked like blue cheese salad dressing) they were still roquefort blue then on the inside of the bottom they had red and orange lights mainly red lights then again red, yellow, and green lights and emitted orange beams. Then 3 triangler UFOS showed up they were purple lighted with red dots on the corners and emitted pink beams.

Then the 3 circle UFOS had red, yellow, and pink lights on the inside of the bottom then red, yellow and purple lights then red, yellow and green lights. Then as we were still grilling our food barbecue ribs, barbecue chicken, and steaks on the outdoor grills out in the back yard. The 3 circle UFOS on the inside of the bottom one of them had red, yellow, and green lights the other one red, yellow, and purple lights and the one red, yellow, and pink lights and the 3 triangler UFOS were had roquefort blue lights with red dots on the corners.

They all hovered over the treetops in the backyard as we were grilling our food barbecue ribs, barbecue chicken, and steaks on the outdoor grills in the backyard and we were drinking COKES AND DR! . PEPPER S as we watched the UFOS hover over the backyard. Then all 3 circle UFOS on the inside of the bottom had red, yellow, and oranger lights then red, yellow, and pink lights then all blue lights on the inside of the bottom then all 3 circle UFOS on the inside of the bottom had red, yellow, and green lights then red, yellow, and purple lights then red and orange lights mainly red lights then again on the inside of the bottom red, yellow, and purple lights then red, yellow, and green lights and emitted orange beams then the 3 triangler UFOS were yellow lighted wit red dots on the corners.

and emitted purple beams. Then all 3 circle UFOS and the triangler UFOS were all white lighted. The 3 circle UFOS on the inside of the bottom were all white lighted and the 3 triangler UFOS were all white lighted with no dots on the corners.

Then all 6 UFOS the 3 circle UFOS and the 3 triangler UFOS all disappeared and we saw them no more they were going towards the ocean to folley beach I guess they crashed out in the ocean. We saw all of this as we were grilling our food barbecue ribs, barbecue chicken, and steaks on the outdoor grills out in the backyard. Then as we were still grilling our food on the outdoor grills out in the backyard 2 huge cone UFOS showed up the were red on top and yellow on bottom then red on top and purple on bottom then they disappeard they disappeard as fast as they came going towards the ocean and probally crashed in the ocean.

Then 2 rectangler UFOS showed up they were blue lighted and then red lighted and emitted! purple and yellow beams. Then 2 diamond UFOS showed up they were a gold color. Then as we were still grilling barbecue ribs, barbecue chicken, and steaks on the outdoor grills in the backyard our food a huge chest UFO showed up it had colors of red, yellow, green, purple, blue, orange, roquefort blue, pink, white, black, and gray on it.

And it hovered all over the backyard and emitted orange and roquefort blue beams and then disappeared going. All the UFOS cone, rectangler, diamond, and chest UFO were going towards folley beach I guess they all crashed out in the ocean. Then a circle UFO showed up on the inside of the bottom it had red, yellow, and purple lights and emitted orange beams the red, yellow, and green lights and emitted orange beams then on the inside of the bottom all blue lights then red and orange lights mainly red lights then again red, yellow and green lights and emitted orange beams.

Then it was all white lighted on the inside of the bottom it had all white lights and disappeard it probally crashed out in the ocean. Then 3 more triangler UFOS showed up they were all pink lighted with red dots on the corners and emitted blue and purple beams then they were blue lighted with red dots on the corners and made a whistling sound and disappeard going to folley beach to crash in the ocean. Then 2 more triangler UFOS showed up they were green lighted with yellow dots on the corners they made a whistling sound then they were all white lighted with no dots on the corners then they disappeard going towards the ocean to! folley beach I guess they crashed out in the ocean.

Then we were all done grilling our food the barbecue ribs, barbecue chicken, and steaks we grilled on the outdoor grills out in the backyard as we were watching all these UFOS we saw that night. We saw no more UFOS and we took our food in the grilled on the outdoor grills out in the backyard and got ready to eat it. It was really fun to be with my neighbor friends being together and seeing the UFOS we saw it was a very clear night outside and we saw no more UFOS.

It was really an exiting experience to see all the UFOS we saw when we were all in the backyard grilling food and we were all together. We just couldn't believe all the UFOS we saw when we were all together. ((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax? PD)).

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I WAS SHOOTING THE BULL WITH SOME OF MY NEIGHBORS THAT OUR FRIENDS OF MINE AND WE SAW SOME EXCITING UFOS. On Tuesday November 22, 2005 at 6:40 P.M.

at night I went over to a neighbors house with some of my friends. I went out on the patio out in the backyard and we were grilling some hamburgers on the outdoor grills out in the backyard. And we looked up and saw 3 circle UFOS.

They were round and on the inside of the bottom they had red, yellow, and green lights then red, yellow, and purple lights then they had all red lights on the inside of the bottom and then all blue lights on the inside of the bottom then again red, yellow, and green lights and they emitted orange beam. Then all 3 circle UFOS on the inside of the bottom had red and orange lights mainly red lights then they were a roquefort blue (what I mean by a roquefort blue they looked like roquefort and blue cheese salad dressing the lights on the inside of the bottom looked like ROQUEFORT SALAD DRESSING and they had light blue lights) they still had on the inside of the bottom roquefort blue lights then again red and orange lights mainly red lights. Then all 3 circle UFOS on the inside of the bottom had red, yellow, and pink lights and emitted blue and green beams.

Then all 3 circle UFOS were all white lighted and they disappeard. When these UFOS disappeared they had on the inside of the bottom all white lights and we didn't see them no more. Then 5 trianger UFOS showed up they were all purple lighted with red dots on the corners and they emitted roquefort blue beams and they hovered over the backyard as we were grilling hamburgers on the outdoor grills out in the backyard.

These trianger UFOS made a whistling sound and they left a trail and a haze then they were all white lighted and they disappeard and we didn't see them no more. These triangler UFOS were white lighted when they disappeard. The 3 circle UFOS and the 3 triangler UFOS were going west when they disappeard.

Then 2 huge cone UFOS showed up they were red on the top and yellow on the bottom then red on the top and purple on the bottom. Then a strange UFOS showed up it was round and wide on the top and got narrower going towards the bottom and wider going towards the top and narrower going towards the bottom. It looked like a top but it was oranger lighted with red vertical lines and it had a green light on the middle of the top and the middle of the bottom.

It was very scary and it scared us all I have never been so scared. Then 3 more trianger UFOS showed up they were all green lighted with orange dots on the corners and they emitted red and yellow beams. Then were white lighted and disappeard.

These 3 trianger UFOS were white lighted with no dots on the corners when they disappeard and were going west. I took all the hamburgers off the grills that we grilled on the outdoor grills out in the backyard and we were done grilling these hamburger we saw all these UFOS as we were grilling these hamburgers on the outdoor grills in the backyard and drinking COKES and I took them home to eat them I ate some of them. There was a whistling sound to the 3 green trianger UFOS that had orange dots on the corner.

It was a very clear night outside. I took the hamburgers we grilled back to my house. It was exciting to see the UFOS that we saw.

((NUFORC Note: One of several reports from the same source, apparently of the same event. Please see other reports from the vicinity of James Island. PD)).

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was low flying slow moving craft with bright lights 2 lights seemed to slowly drop from it and it flew right over my house had round circle in the middle of it like some ufo drawings i have seen and made a low noise just wondering if some military jets or planes were flying at that time ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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I did not see this from photo till downloaded to desktop. But next morning had puncture wound on bend of arm like I had had blood taken. With a dream of pain that semi-woke me to move in bed.

This wound and dream has happened several times over past 10 yrs.

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three round lighted objects blinking in sequence then disapeer Driving down 17S looked over to the left sky was black no clouds say three round lights hovering in formation, then the third light blinked out the second blinked out and the first went out. The third blinked back on the out, second one did same and the first one did the same. then they were gone.

About 5 min. later saw one of the craft? blink on and off about ten miles away west and then it was gone. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

PD)).

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Bright lights in a line formation. 5 lights appeared over in the sky about a mile away from our position on a hill, 2 lights came on at the same time and then the next 3 lit up. Then they moved in a direction torwards each other and then all faded out.

Then after we headed down the road about another half mile the lights appeared again, about 4 miles away, they appeared in the same manner, and all faded out a few seconds later. All were a slightly redish orange colour.

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four lights that appeared one by one and then disappeared,followed by the fastest streak shooting across the sky I have ever seen. I went outside around 9pm and noticed a strange orange light near the west. I first thought it was a planet but upon further observation, noticed that more of these lights were coming from this one light in a straight pattern.

There was also another light farther away from these other lights about an arms length moving just above the tree tops. There was a total of four lights. One by one the lights disappeared in the order in which they started.

I thought the show was over but a few seconds later, I saw the fastest streak shoot across the sky not once but twice in different directions. Each one was a few seconds apart. Whatever those things were, they werent man made things.

Man hasn't made anything that moves as fast as those things moved. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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Bright Orange Stationary Lights It was about a quarter till 7 in the evening and it was pretty much dark. I took my dog out to use the bathroom. While waiting on him, a light caught my eye.

My first thought was it was a Bright star we have seen in the sky for months now that twinkles. As I looked at it my thought changed. We live in a flight path of our air port and often on hazy nights when planes come in their lights look orange.

Having a love for aviation I always watch planes flying by. As I was watching the stationary bright orange light that appeared low in the horizon, suddenly a second light light up just adjacent to the first as it went out, then a third light further away light up and the second one went out. Each lasting about 2-3 seconds.

All of the lights seemed to be in a horizontal plane. As I could not believe what i just saw, I stood there watching the sky. About 3-4 minutes later watching the same area the sky lit upwith about 6-7 more of these bright orange lights all seemed to be in the same horizontal plane all lasting 2-3 seconds.

None of the lights lit up at the same time but some were overlapping( one was going out as another was lighting up). after the last one went out I did not see any more. As the last one went out my dog that was now inside started barking.

I went inside and my wife had called me just as the last one went out and he was barking at the phone. I dont know what I saw, I have never seen a UFO before but this was very weird. The area where they lit up was over wet land and a portion of state route 31 not where there are any people.

The sky was not 100% dark and I could not make out any shape behind them and the lights did not move and they all looked alike and they made no sound and no low flying aircrafts around. there were planes at like the 30000 feet flying way above this area. What ever it was I freaked me out a bit and made me wonder what I saw.

I just thought I would share what i saw with everyone else in case anyone else saw it too.

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Multiple Star Like Objects Move Towards Same Direction After Meteor Shower After what appeared to be a meteor shower (7-8 maybe more meteors), my friend and I were staring at the sky and noticed what appearred to be a star slowly moving to our left. After watching it for a minute, it appeared to vanish. some time later we noticed another one moving just as slow and vanishing after a minute or two.

We saw 3 more act the same exact way and move in the same direction as the others. They looked exactly like stars, but were definitely moving, and appeared to be very high in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness was observing celestial objects, and/or satellites.

PD)).

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Saw lights of rotating, saucer-like object off of coast. Was completely silent, close, and very large My girlfriend, brother, and myself we on our last day/night of vacation in North Myrtle Beach, S.C.

It was nearly the off-season and was pretty empty at the pool/patio area where we were. We were at a table talking on the patio that borders the beach. IT was a clear night and you could see stars, airplanes way up in sky, etc.

I was facing the beach, my brother on the left of me facing my girlfriend who was seated on the right of me. I saw two lights appear about 400 yards out over the ocean (orange-ish in color) that looked like wingtip lights of a large airplane that would be flying directly at us. However it was much too low to be an airplane and it wasn't moving.

I got the attention of the two others with me who watched. A 3rd (center light) then appeared. The object was silent and not moving.

Then the lights disappeared. It was there for a total of about 5 seconds. We watched the ocean, waiting for something to happen.

About 4 minutes later the object reappeared closer and a bit to the left now. It was now at about 200 yards (close) and it was not moving at all. It was completely silent and you could see 3 lights rotating to the left (clockwise).

It had more lights but you could only see 3 at a time as the object was rotating in place on it's axis. We were all shocked and my girlfriend who is a complete skeptic just kept saying "Oh my God, Oh my God." It stayed in the same spot (silently hovering) for about 15 seconds and then the lights turned off all at once and it was gone.

It did not reappear. I noticed about 5 guys gather on the beach after this occured who were pointing toward the ocean. I believe they saw the object also but to my regret, I did not ask them about it.

Did anyone else see this? I know airplane types, sounds, and statistics VERY well and this object was not an airplane, balloon, or normal aircraft of any kind. It was very large (about 20 yards across), silent, and extremely stable. It was almost like it was looking at the coastline from the ocean, then left.

Needless to say, my girlfriend is now a believer. We unfortunatly did not have our camera on us so we are having a hard time convincing friends of what we saw.

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Dark, soundless object low in the sky over Anderson, SC; looked like huge black helium balloon? My wife, daughter and myself were walking across a restaurant parking lot to our car when my daughter asked "what's that?" What we saw was a black object in the distance with no lights. It was close to dusk, but the object stood out clearly because the sky behind it was still fairly light. It appeared to be low flying (my first thought was an ultralight plane).

There was no noise, and it was moving in our direction. It looked as if it would fly over close to us. We watched it for at least a minute and decided we looked foolish out in the middle of the parking lot.

We turned toward our car and had to walk behind a small tree which blocked our view for a couple of seconds. When we were past the tree we all looked and the object had disappeared. The shape was roughly triangular with the points rounded.

My wife thought she saw a faint light at one point. It seemed like it wobbled and didn't hold a straight path.