Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Red/Orange lights over the ocean
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-09-06
- Where
- Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.689, -78.887 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-myrtle-beach-sc-2007-a296e0
Part of a wave
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
3 reports came out of Myrtle Beach, SC in September 2007 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Myrtle Beach, SC has 292 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 78 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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