CaseFormation2014

North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

5-6 red-orange linear lights in the sky above the ocean. they appeared one after the other, and lasted 5 seconds each before fading out

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-10-08
Where
North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
1 hour
Geo
33.816, -78.680 · exact
Slug
formation-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2014-1e188d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2014

    SC flap 2014-10

    SC, USA

    12 sightings in geohash dq00 (SC) during 2014 peak months 10–10; top shape light

Local cluster

Local cluster

7 reports came out of North Myrtle Beach, SC in October 2014 alone — a local cluster.

Flap

SC flap 2014-10

Logged as part of the SC flap 2014-10, a 12-report space-time cluster.

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In context

  • North Myrtle Beach, SC has 131 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 260 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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