North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Large, bright orange lights, appearing and disappearing over the coast, accompanied by smaller white lights.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-06-25
- Where
- North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 33.816, -78.680 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2020-551015
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of North Myrtle Beach, SC in June 2020 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- North Myrtle Beach, SC has 131 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 116 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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