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South Carolina UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 115 UFO sighting reports in South Carolina from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (22 reports, 19.13% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (19 reports, 16.52% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (26 reports, 22.61% of total).
- 05/14/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 3.48% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (66 reports, 57.39% of total).
South Carolina UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 South Carolina UFO reports from 2019, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Two rows of 6 white lights each hovering above ground close to fence, ascending above trees and returning to jump fence My ring camera recorded this. I did not see it with my own eyes. Two rows of lights (6 each row) hovered close to ground, ascended above tree, returned descending, and jumped over fence close to where it started.
It appeared to be between 1 to 3 feet long. It appears to be transparent. Only the rows of lights visible.
No sound at all.
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Many colors were seen flashing in a big portion of the sky. I have personally seen a vast section of the sky turn blue, red, and green. These colors are extremely vibrant and almost concerning.
It has been raining non stop for the past 3 days until about 5 oclock today. It stopped and the sky was a neon yellow color. Then, as the sun went down, it began to rain again.
The sky continued to flash from blue to red, then to green. Again, all colors were vibrant, noticeable, and I captured the fast transition on video. There was also a white orb, looking as if it were a star, in the colors.
When they colors would appear, the orb would vanish. When the colors would die out, the orb would remain. It is very confusing and breathtaking.
I researched a bit before I contacted you but I couldn’t find anything on the subject. I hope you can get in contact with me. Thank you.
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Orange lights in sky orange spheres in sky, moving in a line up and fading in sequence.
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Glowing orange orbs floating over Greenville There were about 10 glowing orange orbs flying/floating in a single type formation. There was no sound. Then each one of them disappeared one at a type when they got to a certain spot in the sky, like the sky just swallowed them.
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watched object travel across sky and quickly gain speed and suddenly disappear My Mother and I were turning into Bons Secours St. Francis Hospital and noticed a bright flying object in the sky with a distinct illuminated trail behind it. At first we thought it could be a plane reflecting the suns light until we realized the sun was still not in sight.
We watched the object travel across the sky and then witnessed it start dissipating and then saw it appear to "go into hyper speed" and quickly disappear. The flight path/trail was clearly visible for up to 5 minutes after the sighting. Also captured some of the event on video.
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MADAR Node 95.
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Myself and a co-worker saw 2 shiny silver cylinder shaped objects flying close to each other moving east to west. There was no trail or sound at all. When trying to photograph could not capture image.
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MADAR Node 95.
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Flickering lights anomaly stationary in sky above beach. Flash of light woke me. Looked out of hotel room window to se a series of bright lights hovering in sky.
Sometimes lights moved a little and seemed to be both clear and colored but object never moved. Moon visible above hotel and stars are clear. Light anomaly appears to flicker and has remained stationary.
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MADAR Node 95.
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I have seen the Myrtle Beach UFO "orbs" a few times the last five or so years. This time I was at Belin Church in Murrells In I have seen the Myrtle Beach UFO "orbs" a few times the last five or so years. This time I was at Belin Church in Murrells Inlet and noticed the orbs off in the distance over the Garden City Beach ocean.
I decided to drive south to N. Litchfield Beach access thinking I could get closer. as soon as I arrived I noticed the orbs now much closer over the ocean.
The orbs appeared several times over the next 20 min or so but the duration was only a few seconds of lights (under 10 seconds each time) I was unable to get any video because of the short time frame. I noticed no aircraft or lights in the area except one aircraft in the distance that looked to be perhaps landing at Myrtle Beach but was many miles from my location and the orbs. This is about the 5th or 6th time I have seen these and I am now always looking up so I hope to get some video in the future.
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I live on ICW. Asleep 3 hours. Suddenly awakened by a fast approaching, high accelerating, loud, roaring noise.
Vibration felt inside house. Like hovering over house. Lasted approx.
5 minutes. Intense and booming. Ended abruptly after 5 min.
Didn't fade out like vehicle or boat passing by. My two dogs heard it also; they ran into my room whimpering and hid. After 5 minutes, total and complete silence.
No fade out. No other occurrences after. Outside - No traffic seen or heard.
Waterway clear. Sky clear of objects or lights. Regular traffic/neighborhood sounds resumed within about 20 min.
NOT like military fly overs, which are common to Myrtle Beach area every week.
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Was going down camp rd. near middle school and saw 3 orange lights in equilateral triangle formation, look as if was one craft possible half mile wide. Yelled at my girlfriend, look over there and she tried to follow it.
Trees were breaking up over view and when we got to clear viewing area it was gone. We drove back to where we initially sighted it to see if we might have accidently seen something else but no, we both saw the samething and was not some kind of optical illusion.
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Saw a plane shaped vehicle hovering over a hotel in the air. It was in the air but stayed completely still the entire time.
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MADAR Node 95.
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MADAR Node 95.
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Small orb moving in erratic patterns Our family was on the beach enjoying the evening when we noticed a light on the horizon. What drew our attention was the erratic movement of the small orb. It was white to orange in color.
What drew our attention and held it was the erratic movement of the orb. It would move left to right, up and down in jerky movement with no apparent rhythm or order. It stayed in basically the sane location but would move in all directions and then come back.
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Simpsonville SC - long snake like cylindrical object floating in sky - duration 15 minutes As I was driving through my neighborhood around 11:45 I noticed a family looking up in the sky. They were shielding their eyes because of the sun! No clouds at all. I asked what they were looking at and they pointed up! To my amazement their was this cylindrical almost snake like object floating in the sky.
It was very high in the sky and moving slowly. It looked black but as it would turn it would change to a silver color. We watched it until it slowly moved on, either disappearing or moved higher in the sky so that we could not see it.
My neighbor took 5 pictures with his phone it did not show up in any of the photos. I am still in awe of it. I just thought it would be worth having a record of it.
Thank you.
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Object moves slowly across sky and turned a bit. Photo could not be taken on iPhone. The object could be seen by eye, but did not appear when photo taken.
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Yesterday afternoon my family and I were outside tossing a football. We decided to take a break in the trampoline. My husband was the first to spot these UFOs then myself and my son.
There was a large fleet of UFOs moving toward the sun. Most were circles withered flashing white and blue lights. There were also a few crafts that were larger in size.
Silver and saucer shaped.2 of the circular crafts flew behind the cluster of crafts.they made slower left to right movements.
They also had some type of smoke coming from the back of the craft.one of the crafts from the cluster took off east at an extremely fast speed. We are all pretty shook up.
South Carolina UFO Sightings From 2019 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Circle | 22 reported sightings | 19.13% of all reports |
Light | 19 reported sightings | 16.52% of all reports |
Sphere | 11 reported sightings | 9.57% of all reports |
Unknown | 9 reported sightings | 7.83% of all reports |
Other | 8 reported sightings | 6.96% of all reports |
Oval | 7 reported sightings | 6.09% of all reports |
Triangle | 6 reported sightings | 5.22% of all reports |
Formation | 4 reported sightings | 3.48% of all reports |
Fireball | 3 reported sightings | 2.61% of all reports |
Flash | 3 reported sightings | 2.61% of all reports |
Egg | 3 reported sightings | 2.61% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 2.61% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 1.74% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 1.74% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 0.87% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 0.87% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.87% of all reports |
South Carolina UFO Sightings From 2019 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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October | 19 reported sightings | 16.52% of all reports |
December | 16 reported sightings | 13.91% of all reports |
July | 13 reported sightings | 11.30% of all reports |
May | 13 reported sightings | 11.30% of all reports |
April | 11 reported sightings | 9.57% of all reports |
September | 11 reported sightings | 9.57% of all reports |
June | 8 reported sightings | 6.96% of all reports |
November | 6 reported sightings | 5.22% of all reports |
February | 6 reported sightings | 5.22% of all reports |
January | 5 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
March | 4 reported sightings | 3.48% of all reports |
August | 3 reported sightings | 2.61% of all reports |
South Carolina UFO Sightings From 2019 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Tuesday | 26 reported sightings | 22.61% of all reports |
Thursday | 18 reported sightings | 15.65% of all reports |
Friday | 16 reported sightings | 13.91% of all reports |
Wednesday | 15 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Monday | 15 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Saturday | 13 reported sightings | 11.30% of all reports |
Sunday | 12 reported sightings | 10.43% of all reports |
South Carolina UFO Sightings From 2019 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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05/14/19 | 4 reported sightings | 3.48% of all reports |
04/17/19 | 4 reported sightings | 3.48% of all reports |
10/20/19 | 4 reported sightings | 3.48% of all reports |
12/12/19 | 3 reported sightings | 2.61% of all reports |
09/12/19 | 3 reported sightings | 2.61% of all reports |
South Carolina UFO Sightings From 2019 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 66 reported sightings | 57.39% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 13 reported sightings | 11.30% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 12 reported sightings | 10.43% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 9 reported sightings | 7.83% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 8 reported sightings | 6.96% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 7 reported sightings | 6.09% of all reports |
All South Carolina Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in South Carolina, in 2019
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in South Carolina
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in South Carolina.