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CaseUnknown2014

Surfside Beach, SC, USA

While standing in my garage looked toward the ocean and quite a distance off and far above the ocean I seen one round orange light. A

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-01-14
Where
Surfside Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
33.606, -78.973 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-surfside-beach-sc-2014-456182
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 shows up 45 times across the archive.
  • 260 reports came from South Carolina in 2014.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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