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South Carolina UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 120 UFO sighting reports in South Carolina from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (26 reports, 21.67% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (24 reports, 20.00% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (23 reports, 19.17% of total).
- 04/28/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 4.17% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (62 reports, 51.67% of total).
South Carolina UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 South Carolina UFO reports from 2020, 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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An identical sighting almost one year after the first one over the SC sky I was moments away from arriving home when in the sky I saw what looked like a plane with a contrails at first. The difference was is that it was not a plane and instead of moving like a plane this object first moved down torward the ground emote stopping and remaining still for what seemed like an eternity. That was when I noticed a smaller light above the larger object then directly below those two coming from the left side of the sky there was what looked like a plane with a trail flying from left to right but it was a straight line.
My video looks identical to a sighting that I found from exactly one year ago in South Carolina also. Same time of day and all. Very strange.
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Noticed a bright light at high altitude >10,000 ft. Observed for a few minutes and noticed objects depending at high rate if speed. As object reached lower altitude i was able to clearly identify a red cylinder shaped object moving from north to south.
This was before sunset so I had clear visual siting. I was able to get good video. My son came outside to see what I was observing and also witnessed the object.
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I seen flashing that was not an airplane. I was laying in a swing and I seen some flashing in the sky and it was not an airplane. It flashed 6 times in 10 seconds.
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We have a landfill in town. Something resembling a rocket took off from the area the landfill is at. It's also a methane processing plant.
I watched this rocket looking object shoot up. It released two smaller balls of blinking lights. Went further up and released another one.
So three total. I had my girlfriend and her dad watch with me. It was kind of brief but I couldn't have been the only one who seen it.
I've seen planes release contrails but this was not the same. If anyone else seen this event just know your not alone. I'm truly baffled.
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tricycle, back wheels blue lights, front red light, noise was loud roaring sound Last night around 20:50 pm, I heard a very loud noise that sounded like a heavy truck, i.e., (garbage or cement truck).
It was so loud that I went and opened my door to see what was going on. I didn’t see anything at eye level, so I looked up to the sky. It was past my house, just to the left of me, moving quite fast and the noise continued.
Appearance. Looked like either a huge plane or a tricycle, the back wheels had blue lights, in the front had red flashing lights.
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Bright white square-shaped craft with rounded corners and silver band hovers silently then disappears. Broad daylight, blue sky. 200 yards away.
I saw one very bright white square shaped ufo. The shape was more like a thick square that had been flattened a little and the corners were slightly rounded. There was a silver band at the midpoint or just below.
It hovered, hanging silently in the air. I turned my head away for 3 seconds to see if anyone else was seeing it. When I turned back, it was gone, I mean gone.
I searched the skies but it was nowhere. I was close enough to see it was not a balloon or a drone. I had seen this thing and no one will ever tell me I didn’t.
And I will never deny seeing it.
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Red glowing half-sphere We saw a red glowing object appearing to be similar in size, if not larger, to a star in the sky. Arising off the object, above and below, was a red half-sphere. Imagine the letter ‘C’, but almost cone-shaped, and the red object would be the tip of the cone.
This object appeared to glide through the sky at a high altitude— we were able to observe said object for approximately four minutes, it gradually became no longer visible. The object appeared to have changed direction becoming more and more faint in color, however the altitude seemed to have remained the same. At the time that the object apparently changed direction we saw a second glowing spherical object descending toward us, it disappeared once it got very close to the horizon.
This second object appeared similar in nature to a flare, without a smoke trail- just the spherical red glowing object. Observation Notes: two observers no noise obtained photo of second object unable to get photo of first object with phone.
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9 bright orange color dots flying from northern sky 9 orange color objects were seen flying one after another with a gap of 5 minutes. The bright orange dots appear in the northern sky and were travelling towards the southern sky. The flying path arc was about 45 degrees above the horizon.
Sky was dark and almost cloudless. It appeared as if somebody was launching these UFOs.
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MADAR Node 95.
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MADAR Node 95.
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Hovering bright light(s) horizontally aligned with red flashing lights between them-changing to 5-6 vertically aligned bright lights While sitting on the back porch overlooking the water on the evening of October 22, 2020 at 19:13, I noticed what appeared to be a single very bright yellow stationary light above the tree line. At first look, it appeared as a brightly lit planet (Jupiter) during ideal viewing conditions. It was rather large (very noticeable) and it resembled the brightness of a planet but the sky wasn’t quite dark enough to see such brightness from a planet and its location ruled out the possibility for it to be a planet.
I grabbed my binoculars and was astonished to see upon focusing, that the single bright light I saw actually appeared as 4 large yellow lights with flashing red lights in between. It remained stationary as I observed and then the lights changed to a vertical or north south position and the flashing red lights disappeared while the four yellow lights I had initially seen changed to 5 or 6 solid yellow lights (I was unable to confirm 5 or 6 because it start! ed moving off to the right in this position and faded out of my view.) No sound could be heard (such that would be associated with an airplane.
) Reflecting back, the whole viewing lasted (given that I had time to get up and take my binoculars from their case and adjust them) about 2-3minutes. I am a college educated healthcare professional (nurse) and my husband, a physician, witnessed this with me while having dinner on the porch.
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We Spotted a small orange orb over the ocean, our first thought was it may be Mars, but the orb got bigger and it was able to move very fast- up down and all directions. We watched this for a few minutes and then the orb grew bigger and brighter and suddenly became 5 orbs, flying in a straight line. My son got out his phone to video the orbs, but they suddenly disappeared before he could record them.
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Contact 2nd night in a row. Please do not make this report public, I'm mostly putting this here as it's the only place to vent and not risk my career. I'm a ((specialty deleted)) working serious cases and this would not fly especially with my ((specialty deleted)) background to make me sound like I have PTSD but.
On the night of the 17th I made a report, I was outside with my girlfriend mid conversation a Triangle set of lights no more than Flight level 090 appeared in the left horizon of my backyard, time 1004. I couldn't sleep, I stayed out with my camera taking hundreds of pictures just hoping to see it again. It returned, exact same part of the sky last night.
I havent slept because this time it didnt shoot across the sky in an instant. It stayed, circling. I could only stare in awe at it.
The 3 lights were a slight blue hue, and immediately after a meteorite dissipated to my right, fractured and made a small parcel of dust. I could no longer locate the craft when I looked back. Please do not make public, or the one from my previous report.
My adrenaline was still rushing and I regretted posting something hinting for others to look into the sky and since removed my post and pretending I was trolling. I've told a trusted few but even then I know I would never in a million years have believed what I was saying, just as you shouldn't, but the truth is what was happening when it stood there. I could feel it looking at me.
I dont even know if I believe in aliens or not but what I saw has irrevocably changed everything I believe. Kind Regards, ((name deleted)).
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Black triangle flight level 090-110 moving south rotational pattern. Silent, low level, 3 lights-one hull.
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Triangular aircraft (not a helicopter) hovering in place next to road at night Triangular aircraft (similar shape to a B-2 bomber but smaller in size - approx. 60 feet wing-to-wing) hovering in place for multiple minutes, approx. 100 ft.
off the ground, above Etheredge Millpond at the intersection of Redmond Mill Rd and Bull Swamp Rd. Pulled over to view the aircraft. Aircraft had multiple white spot lights pointed on the ground.
Heard what sounded like jet engines rather than helicopter rotors, but the aircraft was hovering in place for minutes. Had to leave the scene due to traffic. Aircraft never moved before losing sight in my rearview mirror.
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MADAR Node 95.
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v shape with huge two back wheels had blue lights and the front red lights. Last night around 20:50 pm, I heard a very loud noise that sounded like a heavy truck, i.e.
, (garbage or cement truck). It was so loud that I went and opened my door to see what was going on. I didn’t see anything at eye level, so I looked up to the sky.
It was past my house, just to the left of me, moving quite fast and the noise continued. Appearance. Looked like either a huge plane or a tricycle, the back wheels had blue lights, in the front had red flashing lights.
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repeating observation of object in westerly sky after sundown and before object sets, rapid flashing red, green white and blue my third entry, first was on 09/30/2020. object can be seen every evening that skies are clear, about 1/2 hour after sunset until the object sets in the west, about 21:30. I have observed his object on several occasions prior to the first report over the past year.
my first sighting was in Sept 2019. the object appears to the naked eye as a rotating sphere with rapidly flashing lights, red white green and blue. with binoculars, the object appears triangular possibly pyramidal or octahedron, rapid flashing lights make it hard to decide on shape.
I believe it is a Human made object, but nit is unidentified to me, I would like to know what it is. I will continue to report it until I am contacted with reasonable explanation or in person.
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Second Triangular craft reported over Bennettsville At approximately 2100 Hours I observed a triangular shaped vehicle, with the same characteristics as the previous vehicle from three years earlier. Vehicle was traveling along a West to East track, at approximately 380 feet off the deck. It's airspeed was less than one hundred knots, it emitted no sound, and had no visible exhaust signature.
Vehicle had four visible white formation lights along the trailing edge of the airframe and wing surface. Vehicle banked roughly forty five degrees, changing it's heading to a NW track, which would have carried it over Military airspace at Camp Mackall, N.C.
Vehicle disappeared from view within seconds of changing course.
South Carolina UFO Sightings From 2020 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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Light | 26 reported sightings | 21.67% of all reports |
Circle | 15 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Triangle | 10 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Other | 9 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
Unknown | 7 reported sightings | 5.83% of all reports |
Sphere | 7 reported sightings | 5.83% of all reports |
Formation | 7 reported sightings | 5.83% of all reports |
Fireball | 5 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 1.67% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 1.67% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 1.67% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 1.67% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 0.83% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 0.83% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.83% of all reports |
South Carolina UFO Sightings From 2020 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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August | 24 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
April | 15 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
June | 15 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
October | 12 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
May | 12 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
January | 11 reported sightings | 9.17% of all reports |
September | 9 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
November | 7 reported sightings | 5.83% of all reports |
July | 6 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
February | 4 reported sightings | 3.33% of all reports |
March | 3 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 1.67% of all reports |
South Carolina UFO Sightings From 2020 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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Wednesday | 23 reported sightings | 19.17% of all reports |
Thursday | 20 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Tuesday | 19 reported sightings | 15.83% of all reports |
Sunday | 19 reported sightings | 15.83% of all reports |
Saturday | 14 reported sightings | 11.67% of all reports |
Monday | 14 reported sightings | 11.67% of all reports |
Friday | 11 reported sightings | 9.17% of all reports |
South Carolina UFO Sightings From 2020 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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04/28/20 | 5 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
08/11/20 | 4 reported sightings | 3.33% of all reports |
06/25/20 | 4 reported sightings | 3.33% of all reports |
06/17/20 | 4 reported sightings | 3.33% of all reports |
04/14/20 | 3 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
South Carolina UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 62 reported sightings | 51.67% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 15 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 15 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 12 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 11 reported sightings | 9.17% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 5 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
All South Carolina Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in South Carolina, in 2020
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.