Fireball over Manning, SC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Driving to Florida, a green sphere in the sky free falls, then curves upward, then disappears
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2009-02-12 → 2009-03-01
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June 25, 2020 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Manning, SC
A long line of very bright white lights looked like a plane about to crash then just disappeared very light cloud cover wouldn't have concealed the light. Then shortly after a single white light blinking in middle with external white lights blinking directly after happened 3 times after with brief intervals between then nothing. Was accompanied by very loud sounding like jet engine but just hung around in the air with no sign of a a plane after lights disappeared first time sound vanished then after when flashing lights started sound came back.
October 26, 2017 · 11:29 PM · LIGHT
Manning, SC
All of this lasted maybe ten secs. The light was not blinking. It was only one color. It was ABSOLUTELY VOID OF SOUND!! It was 11:29 PM Eastern time. We live approximately an hour & thirty minutes from Fort Jackson. We are familiar with the sounds of fighter jets and military flyovers. What I saw was faster than ANY FIGHTER JET, was closer than I've ever seen a fighter jet appear without emitting sound. It was both terrifying and completely amazing to witness. Two smaller beams of noiseless, unblinking lights INSTANTLY SPLIT from one large light. I am not crazy. I consider myself a reasonable human being. I know what I saw. Unfortunately, it happened so fast and my mind was trying to process what I was witnessing-I did not have time to record moment. I was in utter disbelief. Afterwards, waves began to heavily lap on shores of north and south side of lake. There was zero wind on this night.
July 20, 2017 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Manning, SC
It was like a circle then it went into a cigar shape. It lasted for about 20 mins. I was on a pier and saw the light moving in a circular motion, then it went straight and all channel marks started flashing at different times.