Light over Graniteville, SC
A conventional explanation is favored by the record but was never formally confirmed.
The report, as filed
There was no lights in my town due to a power outage fairly large town. I tried to record what I saw, but it was a string of 20 to 30 lights in the sky much brighter than stars, and they were just going like a train for 25 to 30 seconds then they just totally disappeared. I tried to record my phone would not pick it up. It’s something I’ve never seen. Looked liked a plane, pulling a banner but it was so bright, and then just disappeared one by one in sequential order no clouds at all in the sky I could see every star. I don’t know what that was but it was nothing I’ve ever seen, but it was big or a lot of them. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176803). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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