What Happened
On June 5, 2026, at 4:30 p.m., two employees of a tour company found themselves on a parking deck between two prominent buildings in Greenville, South Carolina. One of them was filming the view when he spotted a strange point of light hovering about 1,000 feet above the ground.
The object looked like a large, semi-transparent sphere surrounding a soft white light. Witnesses estimated its diameter at between 1 and 10 feet. Its apparent size remained constant, unlike that of a drone or aircraft. The orb moved at an angle of about 60 degrees upward and traveled northwest, toward the mountains behind the city. The witnesses estimated its speed at around 200 miles per hour, giving it an unusually smooth, swift motion.
The two witnesses, one of whom pulled out his phone to record the sighting, watched for about 45 seconds to a minute as the orb receded and became invisible. It continued toward the mountains, disappearing from view. The witnesses tried to explain it as a drone or aircraft, but its transparency and spherical shape made that explanation unconvincing. Neither saw wings or propellers, and the orb passed at a considerable distance, making it difficult to identify.
Local Context
Greenville is a lively city with a high volume of tourist activity, and the parking deck where the witnesses saw the object has a steady flow of vehicles, aircraft, and pedestrians. Private drones can sometimes be seen in the area, but most fly lower and have a conical or boxlike shape, rather than appearing as transparent spheres. The surrounding landscape also includes mountain ridges along the horizon, making a sighting of a high-altitude unidentified object especially striking.
Why Is This Sighting Interesting?
The report describes a rare phenomenon: a transparent orb of considerable size hovering about 300 meters above the ground and moving at very high speed. No similar sighting has been documented in the area, and the witnesses appear credible: they were out in ordinary daylight, aware of their surroundings, and one recorded the sighting on a phone. No other aircraft were seen at the time, making a conventional explanation more difficult.
Summary
The report remains unverified. There are no additional witnesses, and no security cameras captured the sighting. Still, it illustrates how urban sightings can involve unexplained phenomena and reminds us that the skies over Greenville still hold plenty of mysteries.
The report is based solely on the eyewitness accounts of two people and has no corroboration from other sources.
