UFOMYST
CaseSphere2012

North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Orange-yellow lights staggered one behind the other, very bright and very long about 1/4 mile in the air hovering over the ocean.

Report quality: High73/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-10-23
Where
North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
33.816, -78.680 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2012-523bf7
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

North Myrtle Beach, SC logged 4 reports in the single month of October 2012.

In context

  • One of 131 documented reports from North Myrtle Beach, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 186 sightings in 2012.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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