Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
4 star-like lights in a diamond shape, moving in sky to form a vertical line in 3 orange lights then disappear. Quickly.
Report quality: High81/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-08-20
- Where
- Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- a few minutes
- Geo
- 33.689, -78.887 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-myrtle-beach-sc-2014-c787dc
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
August 2014 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 260 South Carolina reports filed in 2014.
- Diamond craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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