Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
3 light left, middle, right stationary for over half an hour.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-09-01
- Where
- Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- Until sunrise
- Geo
- 33.689, -78.887 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-myrtle-beach-sc-2015-ecd6cd
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 2015 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Myrtle Beach, SC has 292 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 109 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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