CaseSphere2014

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
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…

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

within 30 days

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