CaseFormation2011

Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Bright orange balls of light in random formations and quickly moving, chased by military jets

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-06-08
Where
Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
33.689, -78.887 · exact
Slug
formation-over-myrtle-beach-sc-2011-c21106
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…

In context

  • Myrtle Beach, SC shows up 292 times across the archive.
  • 117 reports came from South Carolina in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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