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CaseTriangle2011

Surfside Beach, SC, USA

Was turning left out of our subdivision and looked up into the sky. Saw several bright lights "playing" thru the cloud. Full moon ton

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-15
Where
Surfside Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
15 min
Geo
33.606, -78.973 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-surfside-beach-sc-2011-986398
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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In context

  • Surfside Beach, SC has 45 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 117 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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