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South Carolina UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 45 UFO sighting reports in South Carolina from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "sphere" (8 reports, 17.78% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (9 reports, 20.00% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (10 reports, 22.22% of total).
- 01/20/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 4.44% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (21 reports, 46.67% of total).
South Carolina UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 South Carolina UFO reports from 2021, 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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A green almost like a shooting star flew across the sky, but it was too big and way faster than any airplane. There was a strange green craft that flew across the sky going as quick as a shooting star, but it was way bigger. In addition, it was green, and it disappeared just as fast like it blew out.
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Blues orbs moving very strange in the sky. 2 blues orbs flying around each other. Only caught one because I figured plane.
Then as I watched them move I knew it was no plane. I have a short video captured on my phone.
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Straight line of lights in the sky that slowly started going out from right to left I was driving down the road and looked up and there was a long line of lights underneath a star. It looked like 100 stars in a perfectly straight line and it just sat there. I thought it was maybe a plane or the streak from a plane that had come through or something like that but it was all lights.
Then all of a sudden after about a minute it’s slowly starts disappearing from one end to the other. Like all the bulbs were going out or it turned or backed up and was flying away or something. I have video footage.
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Huge stationary yellow/orange orbs in triangle formation Last night I witnessed something very, very strange. Around 7:30 p.m.
I looked southeasterly out into the night at the ocean and see 3 huge yellow lights forming a slightly obtuse symetrical triangle of the size range of a football field to 2 football fields, lighting up in unison and making no sound or movement then in three or 4 seconds completely disappear in unison. Super big, quiet, suspended perfectly in midair and possibly being a quarter mile to a couple miles away and maybe half that in altitude above sea level. I have never seen anything like it.
It was surreal. And then what appeared to me to be a military plane flew in from the south, which I captured on video, right through the airspace of the 3 huge mysterious triangle of lights. Then after it has passed a single light identical to the 3 that formed a triangle suddenly appears (not moving - my camera moves to catch it) for a few seconds, which i also capture on video (yay!!!!) and then disappears.
Then it returns in the same spot for a second then disappears again. It wasn’t a drone. It was huge and suspended in the air perfectly like a hummingbird.
I was super excited to witness this extraordinary event. Then more (military?) planes fly in and zigzag around the area of the unidentified other worldly lights. Later, while on the phone with Deborah I look out and see them again.
I quickly ended the call and tried to video it but wasn’t successful before they disappeared again. Extraordinary. Then later still I was texting with a friend about this and she sends me news clippings of similar sightings in this area.
Turns out Myrtle Beach is a UFO hotspot. Yay!!!! This video shows the blinking lights of the plane that flew in after the sighting, then a single UFO light appearing and then vanishing, and then reappearing and vanishing again at the end of video. — in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
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Blue sphere 60 to 80 ft dia less than 100 ft in the air I was traveling northbound on Belton Hwy when the bright blue orb flew past me directly above. It was 60 to 80 ft in diameter, glowing blue moving at least 100 mph. I saw it clearly and it was sperical bright blue and fast.
Ill have a dash cam soon.
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I saw an orb of light that swung as if on a pendulum and it's appearance caused the entire forest to go quiet. I was hunting off of Irishtown Road in the Francis Marion National Forest. It was an evening hunt and I was by myself.
I walked into the woods on a hiking trail. When it became too dark to hunt, I descended from the tree I was hunting from and packed up my portable deer stand and began to walk out. I’ve always been very comfortable in the woods, and I could see the hiking trail with the small amount of trace twilight.
So I didn’t use my flashlight. As I was walking down the trail, the frogs and insects began to make a lot of noise. It was quite loud and natural to the area.
Then a light suddenly appeared about 100 yards away near where my truck was parked. The light began to swing back and forth. I thought there was a game warden on the hiking trail and he was signaling to let me know he was there.
It’s common to be checked for proper licensing in this area. I literally thought, ‘oh he has a battery operated lantern and he’s swinging it back and forth like a train conductor.’ That’s what it looked like, a lantern being swung back and forth.
So I responded by clicking my flashlight on and off in his direction to let him know I saw him. That’s when everything got weird. When I flashed my light, the light immediately disappeared, and the symphony of natural noise (frogs, crickets, etc.
) immediately went silent. The hair stood up on the back of my neck. I wasn’t thinking anything supernatural at this point.
I was thinking maybe there was someone out there that didn’t want me to see them, but by this time I was within 30 yards of where the light appeared. The forest had a very dry thick bed of leaves on the ground. Anything walking in the woods would easily be heard, but there was absolutely no sound at all.
I am 57 years old. I was 56 when this happened and I’ve hunted this forest since I was 7. I’ve never experienced anything like this, and I’ve never heard the forest go absolutely silent in a moment.
Now, I was very scared. I began to formulate how I could get to my truck and get out of there. I thought someone may be hiding in the bed of my truck or behind my truck.
It wasn’t registering yet what I had really seen. I made it to my truck, threw my gear in the back and drove out of there at a high rate of speed. As I was driving home, I began putting the pieces together and realized this was something not natural.
The light was distinct and bright. It wasn’t a ‘faint’ light. And the reaction to my presence, the flashing of my light, seemed to cause it to flee, for lack of better words.
But it didn’t go off the trail. It simply disappeared like it had appeared. I will never go back in those woods alone again.
I’m a man of faith, a pastor, and I’m not given to exaggeration. I’m hoping you can help me with some type of explanation or perhaps there is someone else who has experienced this same phenomena.
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S-W 7 or so white sphere's playing in mid air moving from side to side like disappearing and reappearing back and forth up and down. 7-8 SPHERE'S WHITE IN COLOR WAS PLAYING IN MID AIR BACK AND FORTH LEFT TO RIGHT AS ONE FOLLOWED ANOTHER & UP AND DOWN, THEY WERE CHASING EACH OTHER AS ENGAGING IN PLAY, ONE WOULD FLY TO LEFT AS ONE FOLLOWED DISAPPEARING & REAPPEARING THEN THE OTHER,. AS THE OTHERS FLY AROUND IN CIRCLES AND THE OTHERS MOVED UP & DOWN DOING THE SAME, IN A METHODICAL PATTERN LIKE A GAME WITH A MESSAGE.
VERY STRANGE. TRYING TO TAKE A PHOTOS, THEN A HIGH ALTITUDE JET APPEARS ABOVE THEM, SO THEY BEGAN TO MOVE OUT LIKE IN A SINGLE FILE MOVING OUT TO LEFT, AND DISAPPEARING OUT OF SIGHT. SO A LARGE AIRCRAFT COULD BE INDENTIFIED AT THIS TIME AND LOCAL.
NOV,14 2021 @ 010:40 ITS A MAJOR HUB IN GREENVILLE, SC SHOPPING ETC. SO MANY MANY PEOPLE AROUND SO BOUND TO BE AROUND, UNLESS IT WAS ONE OF THOSE: MEMBERS "ONLY" MOMENTS. HOPEFULLY NOT.
BECAUSE THIS WAS REAL AND IN YOUR FACE TYPE SCENARIOS.
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The craft was flying at about 500 ft when it flew over my vehicle, it made no sounds and was traveling about 5 mph.
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2 people witnessed a triangular-shaped UFO above a lake before disappearing completely. My boyfriend and I were driving down a two-lane road around 8pm. We were right next to a lake, when we saw three lights (two amber colored and one green) in a perfect triangular shape.
The lights were not blinking. It was very dark outside, so I could only see the lights, not the actual object. It was hovering maybe 200 ft in the sky for a couple seconds, before quickly turning and speeding off, eventually dipping below the tree line and disappearing from view.
The object never made any noise. It was completely silent, and the object was too large and too quiet to possibly be a drone.
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White light with a blue shield scanning Murrells Inlet. I was looking south east from my bedroom window with my girlfriend. We then saw a white light in the sky.
It was traveling very fast to the east and all of the sudden instantly reversed direction. It would have killed a person from the g-forces. It then turned on a blue light that I can only explain as a blue shield around it.
You could still see the white light in the center. It then started flying in circles and loops as if it were scanning the area and headed east over the horizon.
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black cigar shape with bright yellow peripheral lights day time experience about 9:30a on my deck having coffee. Sky was clear blue, I was observing the moon in the west at about 40 degrees elevation. When I saw what was similar to a flashbulb but long enough duration to show detail.
It was black, with bright yellow lights radiating from it all around. Not beams. These were all the same size and shape.
About 4x longer than the cross section. no sound, cigar shape with pointed ends. object appeared stationary.
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Saw roating round globe moving low above our treeline rotating white to black. While sitting on our patio watching birds coming in to roost as the sun was just below the horizon, we both noticed a round object flying from left to right above our treeline about a mile out (max) and perhaps 1,000 to 2,000 foot altitude. Due to the white color I assumed it was just an aircraft reflecting the setting sun making it appear white.
I then realized I could actually watch the while smoothly become black, then white in a steady transition. The darkness was rotating from the left as would the white during the light dark light transitions of the object. By the time I realized this was unlike anything I had seen before, it was too late to grab a camera as it moved behind my treeline as It moved along .
Background on me, I served in the US Army Infantry airborne for 12 years. I work on a Airforce based, and have a clearance. Ice seen plenty of things in my time, I am 62.
I doubt we have this type of technology. No sound at all. We have a bombing range nearby and only F16's here.
No jet looks like this. I would describe this as a ball that is light and dark which slowly rotates whileovi g smoothly and not terrible fast.
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Two synchronized orbs fly down from the sky and directly over ring camera. We were painting our garage floor, so we placed everything from our garage on the driveway and patio. I sat our ring camera on the deep freeze on the patio to watch our golfcart overnight.
The camera was pointing west toward our driveway. I had never sat a camera outside like this before. My son and I went in and were talking upstairs when my phone alerted that there was motion about 15 minutes after we went in.
My son and I clicked on the ring camera app on my phone, and we saw two synchronized light orbs come down from the sky. As the orbs came lower something darted at them (could have been a bird or bug) and then they shot down right in front of the deep freeze and some beach chairs that were up against it. After a couple of seconds, the orbs come back up, they pause and then fly directly over the camera.
The video captured the sighting which lasted about 16 seconds from when it appeared to when they fly over the camera. This video is unlike anything anyone has ever seen. I showed a few people, and they could not explain it.
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First there was one orange light it came over the tree line covered for a minute and then slowly dissipated about five minutes later another orange light rose about the trailer Howard for a second and then dissipated about five minutes later to orange lights appear as if each light was attached to each end of whatever it was and they moved in unison with each other.
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Orange orb saw by three people that suddenly vanished away from us. Myself, my father, and my grandfather were standing on the balcony at prince resort on the 16th floor. My father saw the object first.
He got my and my grandfather's attention and then we looked. It was a glowing bright orange orb probably out a few miles past the pier. It was over the ocean at least 500 feet above it.
We were all asking each other what it was. It slowly moved to the left and then looked like it was slowly moving toward us. At that point we ruled a flare out because it did not travel as such.
After it slightly moved towards us it took a move away and then vanished with no trace or trail. Almost like a teleport. I have or had never seen anything like this so to me it can only be a UFO or a government test.
Upon research of sightings on this area the next day, I concluded that most of the reports I saw were of the same object or similar multiple objects. I would just like to know for peace of mind. Could not get a photo because it happened so fast and did not want to stop watching it.
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Green object hovers then rapidly changes elevation and direction.
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My family and I were walking along the beach with flashlights looking for shells and anything that washed up on the shore. We looked out into the ocean and we saw three orange lights that were lit for 3 to 5 seconds and then dimmed out. One second later, the three lights appeared further down the beach going south.
The 3 orange lights appeared brightly again, dimmed out, then didn’t return.
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Two bird like objects, a large triangular object, quick flashing white lights, & orange orbs in the sky over North Myrtle Beach. On Tuesday, August 10, 2021, at approximately 10:30 PM, my wife and I were taking a walk along North Myrtle Beach. We were walking from the 500 block of South Ocean Blvd towards the 100 block.
While routinely looking into the sky, I spotted two objects that resembled birds drawn by every amateur artist on the planet. My wife asked what I was looking at and I told her they were birds as they appeared to be hovering and gliding. Shew said “There’s no way those are birds.
Birds wouldn’t be anywhere near that high”. Initially the objects were in the sky to my left, over the land. They hovered overhead for 10-15 seconds and then slowly moved southwest over the beach and ocean.
At some point, I didn’t actually see it happen, because I didn’t think too much of the event at this point, they transitioned to a more vertical position, like a traditional airplane on takeoff. However, the incline was much steeper, an approximate 70 degree angle. The objects steadily, but quickly, rose to a very high altitude and then disappeared.
Not in the way an object will disappear from sight. They just disappeared. About a minute later, my wife and I witnessed lights in the shape of a gigantic obtuse triangle, with an area of approximately 6-8 full moons.
The object was so large we, initially, thought they were three separate objects at first. The lights blinked one after another in a left-to-right rotation. After observing this a few times, we concluded it was one solid object as opposed to three separate entities, despite the fact that we could see nothing inside the massive area.
It was black as the night sky. The object, which appeared to be relatively low in the sky, also appeared to move very down the beach in the same direction we were walking. Although it was so large it may not have been moving at all.
After about a minute, there were a handful of very quick flashing (5-6 flashes in a second or two) small white lights at the side of the triangular object, closest to the100 block (Sorry I’m terrible with directions). That was followed by 3-5 orange orbs, about the quarte! r size of a full moon. My wife said “That’s what I saw earlier!” (when she was sitting on the balcony before our walk).
The orbs glowed for a few seconds each and then disappeared, as did the triangular shaped trio of blinking lights. I was extremely excited and kept asking my wife, “What are we seeing right now?!” I calmed down, however, when I saw a man and young teen boy approaching from the rear. When they reached us, the man asked, “What was that?!” I am a 49 year old man who has been a high school Social Studies teacher for 27 years.
While I have believed in the possibility of extraterrestrial crafts visiting Earth, I have never seen anything before this event. While not questioning what I saw, I do realize there are other explanations such as military tests, etc.
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My sons were in the yard. They saw this gold- illuminated, flickering but not flashing, as if made of fire. No other lights.
pure gold light. Moving quickly at first, then slowed and decreased altitude, then disappeared over the treeline behind our home. There was no sound whatsoever and I think at the decreased altitude, we would have heard some sort of sound.
We heard nothing.
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Saw a star looking object darting back and forth between other stars at a rapid speed.
South Carolina UFO Sightings From 2021 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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Sphere | 8 reported sightings | 17.78% of all reports |
Light | 7 reported sightings | 15.56% of all reports |
Formation | 5 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Other | 4 reported sightings | 8.89% of all reports |
Triangle | 4 reported sightings | 8.89% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Circle | 2 reported sightings | 4.44% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 4.44% of all reports |
Unknown | 2 reported sightings | 4.44% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 2.22% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 2.22% of all reports |
South Carolina UFO Sightings From 2021 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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May | 9 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
January | 5 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
April | 5 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
December | 5 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
October | 4 reported sightings | 8.89% of all reports |
November | 4 reported sightings | 8.89% of all reports |
August | 3 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
March | 3 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 4.44% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 4.44% of all reports |
South Carolina UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 10 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Thursday | 9 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Wednesday | 6 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Friday | 6 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Sunday | 6 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Saturday | 5 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Monday | 3 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
South Carolina UFO Sightings From 2021 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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01/20/21 | 2 reported sightings | 4.44% of all reports |
05/24/21 | 2 reported sightings | 4.44% of all reports |
12/02/21 | 2 reported sightings | 4.44% of all reports |
04/26/21 | 1 reported sightings | 2.22% of all reports |
05/18/21 | 1 reported sightings | 2.22% of all reports |
South Carolina UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 21 reported sightings | 46.67% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 12 reported sightings | 26.67% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 6 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 4 reported sightings | 8.89% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 2 reported sightings | 4.44% of all reports |
All South Carolina Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in South Carolina, in 2021
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.