UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2014

Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Standing on 5th floor of hotel looking out over the ocean when we saw a rectangular strand of extremely orangish bright lights. Stayed

Report quality: High81/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-08-20
Where
Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
33.689, -78.887 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-myrtle-beach-sc-2014-5343fc
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 6 reports in the single month of August 2014.

In context

  • One of 292 documented reports from Myrtle Beach, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 260 sightings in 2014.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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