Pawleys Island, SC, USA
Several orange, sphere shaped UFOs appeared off the coast of Pawleys Island, SC on 06/08/2011
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-06-08
- Where
- Pawleys Island, SC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 33.433, -79.121 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-pawleys-island-sc-2011-897b96
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
- This is one of 39 reports logged in Pawleys Island, SC.
- This case is one of 117 South Carolina reports filed in 2011.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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