CaseFireball2013

Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Three orange fireballs that appeared and then dissappered. Also son heard an unusual noise before seeing object.

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-01-22
Where
Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
7 seconds
Geo
33.689, -78.887 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-myrtle-beach-sc-2013-00bbc6
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Myrtle Beach, SC logged 3 reports in the single month of January 2013.

In context

  • One of 292 documented reports from Myrtle Beach, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 159 sightings in 2013.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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