1970: Daytime Sighting in Florence, South Carolina

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Date: March, 1970

Sighting Time: 6:30 PM

Day/Night: Dusk/Evening

Location: Florence, South Carolina

Urban or Rural: Rural/Interstate/ outskirts of Florence SC and Darlington SC/ TV transmiting Tower.

Hynek Classification: CE1

Duration: More than 4 hours

No. of Object(s):  1

Size of Object(s): 100 feet across and about 25 feet tall

Distance to Object(s): 50 feet

Shape of Object(s): The UFO was metallic, round, with a round cupola on top of the craft as I saw it from the TV tower.it had square looking lights completely around the edge of the craft, they were green,purple, and yellow, The faster the craft flew the faster these lights would appear to go around and around the edge of the craft

Color of Object(s): metallic, green,purple, and yellow,  lights

Number of Witnesses: 2

Source: UFOEvidence.org         

Summary/Description: UFO in broad daylight hovering on top of the tower 

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Drawing by the witness. (The second image is a close-up of the craft in the drawing.)

This was in 1970, Mr. fields and I watched the round craft for about an hour. Then it moved to Interstate 95, about 1/8 of a mile from the transmit tower in Florence SC., an it hovered over a billboard about 50 feet above my head. We were in a car under the UFO, it did nothing to the car instruments, so I got out of car and stood directly under the craft for about 1 hour this was about sunset, nothing happened to me physically, there was no static electricity causing my hair to stand up or anything like that. The craft moved toward the I-95 highway and headed toward Highway 52 from TV Road about 40 feet above our car and turned on Highway 52 toward Darlington SC still about 40 feet above our car.

We continued on to the Darlington by-pass to the Hartsville Hwy. Halfway between Darlington SC and Hartsville SC the craft stopped, by then it was about 9:00 PM, we stood under the craft beside the road for the next 1 hour and 30 minutes. It was about 10:30 PM and the craft tilted its edge upward slightly, {it was round}, toward the sky and took [off] with amazing speed, it did not cause any wind to blow my hair or move any vegetation, the craft had square looking lights on the edge of the craft, and the faster the craft flew the faster these lights would appear to go around and around the crafts edge, the lights were green,purple, and yellow, it was a clear afternoon and night, we were in the close presence of this craft for more than 4 hours, it was nearly a hands on experience.

I did not see who was flying the craft. The craft stayed up in the sky a while stopped then shot off in outer space, at blinding speed.