Surfside Beach, SC, USA
For a period of 10 minutes we saw 3 yellow/orange spheres of light in different locations...then saw 1 at a time appear at a time for s
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-14
- Where
- Surfside Beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.606, -78.973 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-surfside-beach-sc-2014-cb7ec4
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 45 reports logged in Surfside Beach, SC.
- This case is one of 260 South Carolina reports filed in 2014.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
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