UFOMYST
CaseLight2012

Pawleys Island, SC, USA

Walking along the South End of Pawleys Island beach on a clear night we saw 3 orange lights appears suddenly in the sky, attracting our

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-08-06
Where
Pawleys Island, SC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
33.433, -79.121 · exact
Slug
light-over-pawleys-island-sc-2012-58fd7a
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…

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In context

  • Pawleys Island, SC shows up 39 times across the archive.
  • 186 reports came from South Carolina in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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