CaseLight2012

Pawleys Island, SC, USA

Bright lights seen off Pawleys Island SC

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-07-18
Where
Pawleys Island, SC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
33.433, -79.121 · exact
Slug
light-over-pawleys-island-sc-2012-96d8bf
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…

In context

  • This is one of 39 reports logged in Pawleys Island, SC.
  • This case is one of 186 South Carolina reports filed in 2012.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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