CaseCircle2013

North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

A police officer and two other adults witnessed three orange glowing balls of fire appear in the sky as if a light switch had been flip

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-06-12
Where
North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Seconds
Geo
33.816, -78.680 · exact
Slug
circle-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2013-430871
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

June 2013 was a busy month for North Myrtle Beach, SC: 4 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 131 reports logged in North Myrtle Beach, SC.
  • This case is one of 159 South Carolina reports filed in 2013.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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