Garden City Beach, SC, USA
A series of eight orange-red lights, four horizontal, and 2 sets of 2 vertical, lasting 15 to 30 seconds each
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-07-28
- Where
- Garden City Beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.574, -79.003 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-garden-city-beach-sc-2004-ee66bd
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…
In context
- One of 7 documented reports from Garden City Beach, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Carolina logged 47 sightings in 2004.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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