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
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
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 daysReport
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