UFOMYST
CaseChanging2013

Surfside Beach, SC, USA

Reddish/orange lights that would get brighter and fade out every 30 seconds in a perfect triangle.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-18
Where
Surfside Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
1 hour
Geo
33.606, -78.973 · exact
Slug
changing-over-surfside-beach-sc-2013-831c1c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2013

    SC flap 2013-07

    SC, USA

    16 sightings in geohash djzz (SC) during 2013 peak months 7–7; top shape circle

    16 reportsOpen wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Surfside Beach, SC reports filed in July 2013.

Flap

SC flap 2013-07

This report belongs to the SC flap 2013-07 — 16 sightings concentrated together.

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In context

  • Surfside Beach, SC shows up 45 times across the archive.
  • 159 reports came from South Carolina in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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