Fireball over Lake Wylie, SC
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Possible UFO Sighting in Lake Wylie, SC.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2013-11-20 → 2013-12-07
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January 1, 2020 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Lake Wylie, SC
saw a fireball looking thing flying slowly in the sky kind of slowly for about 3 minutes until it was out of sight.
July 20, 2018 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Lake Wylie, SC
Three reddish lights, one after the other, climbing from low to high in the south-southeast part of the sky, headed west, followed shortly by a fourth one. No sound. No shape. We were on a boat on the lake. There was also an airplane that went by in another part of the sky which was bright and noisy, which made the silence of the UFOs more obvious. One witness says he watched the fourth UFO for a while and saw the reddish light go off, leaving just a rounded dark object with no visible wings. He says the UFOs were coming from the direction of the nuclear plant. It was not quite full dark yet. They were moving too fast to be balloons. Possibly helicopters or drones but very quiet.
January 5, 2016 · 8:10 PM · FIREBALL
Lake Wylie, SC
Tonight (05 January 2016), I observed 15 to 20 bright red-orange objects, transiting the night sky over Lake Wylie, SC. They moved from horizon to horizon in a NNE to SSW direction, over a 5 to 8 minute period. They appeared as bright red-orange dots, with irregular spacing along the line of flight, but all seemed be headed in the same direction, and at similar speeds. No sound was detectable. I have never seen anything like this, but the closest thing would be red distress flares--but they don't transit horizon to horizon.
July 4, 2015 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Lake Wylie, SC
Myself and two friends went to watch the fireworks display at the Buster Boyd Bridge in Lake Wylie, S.C.. While the fireworks were exploding I noticed a red mark in the sky off to the right of my field of vision. It was stationary and hovering directly above Venus and Jupiter. I watched it for a few minutes before I told my friends to check it out. It stayed there for about 5 minutes the took a direct path south, then stopped and hovered for a couple minutes and, then changed direction towards the north and continued to hover, a few minutes after the fireworks had ended it abruptly took of at a very high rate of speed heading westward. It was a steady red/orange color and it had a flashing light. If I had to estimate the altitude of the craft I would say somewhere between 2000-2500 feet in the air
February 11, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Lake Wylie, SC
The object (light) will appear in the sky almost every single night. It is a bright light that looks like an airplane, but hovers in the same location for up to 10 minutes at a time. It will slowly ascend upwards, then move horizontally to the west. I have observed this phenomena from my window almost every might. Sometimes even multiple times per night. Seemed to have been hovering above Buster-Boyd Bridge.
November 23, 2013 · 7:05 PM · LIGHT
Lake Wylie, SC
Strange lights in the sky.