CaseLight2006

Surfside Beach, SC, USA

unusual object sighted over surfside beach south carolina

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-02-15
Where
Surfside Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3-5 seconds
Geo
33.606, -78.973 · exact
Slug
light-over-surfside-beach-sc-2006-0460ed
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

  • One of 45 documented reports from Surfside Beach, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 37 sightings in 2006.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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