CaseLight2013

Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Saw four orange lights appear over ocean then disappear.

Report quality: Moderate66/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-09-11
Where
Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
<1 minute
Geo
33.689, -78.887 · exact
Slug
light-over-myrtle-beach-sc-2013-3647f2
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

This sighting is part of a small burst — 6 Myrtle Beach, SC reports filed in September 2013.

In context

  • Myrtle Beach, SC shows up 292 times across the archive.
  • 159 reports came from South Carolina in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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