UFOMYST
CaseOval2011

Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

((HOAX??)) The object was orangish in color with red lights hovering still above the ocean for about an hour and just faded away.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (118 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2011-05-29
Where
Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 HOUR
Geo
33.689, -78.887 · exact
Slug
oval-over-myrtle-beach-sc-2011-483195
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Myrtle Beach, SC logged 3 reports in the single month of May 2011.

In context

  • One of 292 documented reports from Myrtle Beach, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 117 sightings in 2011.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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