Pawleys Island, SC, USA
Mysterious orange lights and apparent military search over Pawleys Island, SC.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-17
- Where
- Pawleys Island, SC, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 33.433, -79.121 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-pawleys-island-sc-2020-d55fed
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
- Pawleys Island, SC has 39 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 116 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2020s skewed 3.1% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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