North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Saw lights of rotating, saucer-like object off of coast. Was completely silent, close, and very large
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-10-20
- Where
- North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 33.816, -78.680 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2005-f20028
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- North Myrtle Beach, SC shows up 131 times across the archive.
- 51 reports came from South Carolina in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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