Myrtle beach, SC, USA
Reddish orange lights on a cylinder shape appeared high in and sky and disappeared six people saw the object before it disappeared.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-09-11
- Where
- Myrtle beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 33.689, -78.887 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-myrtle-beach-sc-2013-8125ff
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
September 2013 was a busy month for Myrtle beach, SC: 6 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 292 reports logged in Myrtle beach, SC.
- This case is one of 159 South Carolina reports filed in 2013.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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