UFOMYST
CaseChevron2014

Surfside, SC, USA

Unordinary orange light in the sky faded away after about 3 minutes.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-07-20
Where
Surfside, SC, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
33.606, -78.973 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-surfside-sc-2014-49e93a
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Surfside, SC logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2014.

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Surfside, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 260 sightings in 2014.
  • Chevron sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.1%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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