CaseLight2013

North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Huge Orange Balls of disappearing and reappearing lights seen briefly over the Ocean at North Myrtle Beach

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: 55s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-06-20
Where
North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
50-60 seconds
Geo
33.816, -78.680 · exact
Slug
light-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2013-cf8fbd
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

North Myrtle Beach, SC logged 4 reports in the single month of June 2013.

In context

  • One of 131 documented reports from North Myrtle Beach, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 159 sightings in 2013.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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