UFOMYST
CaseCigar2020

North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Unidentifiable pulsing red orange vertical rod shaped light above North Myrtle Beach ocean pulses then disappears

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-06-22
Where
North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
33.816, -78.680 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2020-0a60a0
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

North Myrtle Beach, SC logged 3 reports in the single month of June 2020.

In context

  • One of 131 documented reports from North Myrtle Beach, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 116 sightings in 2020.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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