UFOMYST
CaseCircle2012

Surfside Beach, SC, USA

Bright orange lights and formation of twinkling white lights

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (60 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-07-17
Where
Surfside Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 hour +
Geo
33.606, -78.973 · exact
Slug
circle-over-surfside-beach-sc-2012-0b0901
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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In context

  • One of 45 documented reports from Surfside Beach, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 186 sightings in 2012.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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