UFOMYST
CaseCigar2016

North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Walking the beach with my family we saw two lines of six orange dots in a row. There were 2 in close proximity to each other.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-28
Where
North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
33.816, -78.680 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2016-1427b0
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 131 documented reports from North Myrtle Beach, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 97 sightings in 2016.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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