CaseCircle2012

Murrells Inlet, SC, USA

Sitting on porch, saw what looked like a shooting star.Yet there was no trail left behind alike usual. About 5 mis later in the same di

Report quality: High73/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-09-12
Where
Murrells Inlet, SC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
33.551, -79.041 · exact
Slug
circle-over-murrells-inlet-sc-2012-58e2b3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

Local cluster

Local cluster

September 2012 was a busy month for Murrells Inlet, SC: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 26 reports logged in Murrells Inlet, SC.
  • This case is one of 186 South Carolina reports filed in 2012.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.