Surfside Beach, SC, USA
Two red dots moving in sequence and numerous flashes of light. ((NUFORC Note: Many other sighting reports from this area. PD))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-05-27
- Where
- Surfside Beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 33.606, -78.973 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-surfside-beach-sc-2009-e767db
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…
In context
- Surfside Beach, SC has 45 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 68 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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