CaseLight2013

Surfside Beach, SC, USA

Four angular bright orange lights in a row with a fifth one below them.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (71 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-13
Where
Surfside Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
33.606, -78.973 · exact
Slug
light-over-surfside-beach-sc-2013-b4df2f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2013

    SC flap 2013-07

    SC, USA

    16 sightings in geohash djzz (SC) during 2013 peak months 7–7; top shape circle

Local cluster

Local cluster

Surfside Beach, SC logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2013.

Flap

SC flap 2013-07

This case is part of the SC flap 2013-07 — 16 reports clustered in the same place and window of time.

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In context

  • One of 45 documented reports from Surfside Beach, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 159 sightings in 2013.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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