CaseChanging2017
Garden City Beach, SC, USA
Solid orange linear balls of light over the Ocean Garden City, SC
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-15
- Where
- Garden City Beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 2 events, less than a min
- Geo
- 33.574, -79.003 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-garden-city-beach-sc-2017-1d0e29
Wave
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 7 reports logged in Garden City Beach, SC.
- This case is one of 109 South Carolina reports filed in 2017.
- Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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