South Carolina UFO Sightings
1973 Photo
??-1980
SUBJECT: UFO SIGHTINGS BY MARY GEEST FILE:
This sighting occurred about nine years ago...So I have forgotten the exact date and time. My mother and I to our knowledge are the only ones to see this since we did not inquire about the area to see if anyone else saw it. It was shortly after sunset and a storm was comming in from the ocean when we saw something we knew wasn't a plane. We were sitting on the porch of our summer home on Edisto Island, S. Carolina, when my mother noticed this bright round object. At first she mistook it for the moon, but on closer observation we realised it couldn't be since it was very cloudy out and it moved around. I myself only saw it for a short time, but mom had viewed it considerably longer. This object was huge, I can only guess at it's size, something like 200-300 feet accross. I knew it was low to the ground because I could make out the outline of trees behind it and it appeared to becoming out or above the woods. It was a bright gold in color like "spun gold". It looked similar to a plate or saucer standing on it's rim. It had no lights as far as we could notice and made no sound. It did move in several directions, after a few moments we lost sight of it. We thought maybe it could have been a form of "ball Lighting" since a storm was approaching or even a weather balloon but isn't a weather balloon silver or white in color and as I understand "Ball Lightening" is very rare and never that big..... I would be interested on comments as to what this may or could have been. Especially from anyone in the scientific community....Mary Geest 3/27/89
1980 Photo
03-10-1998
DIAMOND-SHAPED UFO SEEN IN SOUTH CAROLINA
On Tuesday evening, March 10, 1998, Patricia B. and her two daughters, aged 17 and 11, were driving south on Interstate Highway 26 in South Carolina, heading to Florida for a vacation. As they approached Columbia (population 98,052), the state capital, the family spotted a UFO. They were travelling at about 65 miles per hour on I-26, just past the Broad River Road exit, north of Dutch Square Mall. "It seemed to be hovering over the highway,"
Patricia reported, "I got a very good look at it from underneath. It was rectangular, almost a diamond shape, with unusually bright lights on the bottom and more lights on the top...The lights shining up seemed equal to those shining below, and there were at least 12 or 13" lights.
"When we first saw the object, it appeared to be a stationary light about 20 degrees above the horizon, about the size of a light on a radio tower. As we drove closer, we went directly under it...Directly overhead it was as big as a basketball held at arm's length." Patricia offered this sketch of the UFO: She estimated that she and her daughters had the UFO in view for "five minutes." (Email Interview)