UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Multiple very bright orange lights. Recurring.

Report quality: Moderate66/100

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 (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-05-15
Where
Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
33.689, -78.887 · exact
Slug
circle-over-myrtle-beach-sc-2017-21cb38
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Myrtle Beach, SC reports filed in May 2017.

In context

  • Myrtle Beach, SC shows up 292 times across the archive.
  • 109 reports came from South Carolina in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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