UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Surfside Beach, SC, USA

UFO sighting over the Atlantic in Surfside Beach SC.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-12
Where
Surfside Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
33.606, -78.973 · exact
Slug
light-over-surfside-beach-sc-2008-2033d4
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

  • Surfside Beach, SC has 45 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 46 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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