Surfside, SC, USA
Weird Orange light above the ocean that faded after about 30 seconds.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-21
- Where
- Surfside, SC, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 33.606, -78.973 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-surfside-sc-2014-418ec7
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…
Local cluster
July 2014 was a busy month for Surfside, SC: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Surfside, SC.
- This case is one of 260 South Carolina reports filed in 2014.
- Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 2010s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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