Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Orange lights moving in formation seen from the southern end of Myrtle Beach, SC.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-05-30
- Where
- Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- ~20 minutes
- Geo
- 33.689, -78.887 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-myrtle-beach-sc-2018-6fe5fd
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
Myrtle Beach, SC logged 5 reports in the single month of May 2018.
In context
- One of 292 documented reports from Myrtle Beach, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Carolina logged 78 sightings in 2018.
- Other sightings ran at 6.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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