Occurred: 2025-01-17 04:04 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2025-01-16 23:50 Pacific
Duration: 1
No of observers: 1

Location: Gresham, SC, USA
Location details: Outside close to the ground

Shape: Egg
Color: Silver
Viewed From: Land
Angle of Elevation: 43
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Electrical or magnetic effects

Out this world - shaped like an egg and almost the size of a car, didn’t move in the powerful wind, very close.

Out this world

Ok well here we go my name is (deleted). I’m here to tell you that my first experience was very different and unexpected especially where I’m from. It was like 4am, really windy outside, like really heavy no rain, and I’m walking all by myself with my head phones on when suddenly I feel this urge to look up and the thing I saw was shaped like an egg. It was almost the size of a car and it was stationary and didn’t move a muscle in the air, powerful wind, and it was really close to the ground. I mean super super close, and it was in the air enough to see it also it was in someone’s backyard. But if I could get on the roof I could jump off and touch it.

And it was almost like it was breathing like a light, but one dim light in the inside, and it was glowing almost like a heartbeat. Never seen anything ever like this and I think this is very serious.

NUFORC Note: INVESTIGATION REPORT

I texted the contact and identified myself as an investigator researcher helping NUFORC to investigate his case as reported in January 2025. He immediately called me back. He had a terrible connection, I called him back and it was only slightly better. The contact was reluctant to give me the location, but when he said it was across the street from a family member’s home I realized he didn’t want to identify the location for privacy. I asked if he could give me the zip code and he gave it as 29546 which is Gresham, SC in Marion County SC 33.89001, -79.35151 and not Conway, SC as initially reported, but is west of Conway. This is an area not well populated, the 2023 data indicates 2,574 people in the county and 18.13 per square mile.

The individual said he couldn’t remember the date which is not uncommon. I had hoped to clarify the date. He said he was walking down the street around 4 AM with headphones on listening to music. It was very windy. He said he felt a presence, didn’t know why, looked up and slightly above a house on the right side and then close to the ground about 5-6 feet from him, about 14 feet off of the ground, the size of an SUV, he said what looked like a large egg. It was silver almost translucent, light inside radiating like a slow heartbeat, the light was dim. No lights on the outside. He was very confident about something being inside it and not otherwise controlled, felt a presence that he couldn’t explain.

Family member’s house was across the street from the sighting, he panicked in shock, pulled his phone out like to take a photo, but it died. He ran, scared, he looked back and it was gone, he said very fast despite it being very windy. There was no sound, he felt like it was looking for something, couldn’t explain, felt some intelligence inside it. The episode lasted 6-7 minutes. No one else was around at that time in the morning. There were no environmental sounds like dogs etc. This was the individual’s first experience of any type.

I checked Wunderground for both January 16 and January 17 and the winds at 4:00 AM were CALM. Many sightings involve unusual weather patterns not otherwise documented, so whether this was part of the effect with the sighting, that is the only thing I can come up with. Sky object documentation not warranted with this type of sighting, as not seen in sky view. The moon was a waning gibbous moon per Wunderground.

Submitted by Lynda Thompson
Independent Investigative Researcher
Director of Research, Aerospace Research Operations

Additonal report from madar - see https://nuforc.org/madarproject

MADAR site had magnetometer spike at time of sighting. Investigation showed the reported departure 6-7 mins later might have been recorded as well.