UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Murrells Inlet, SC, USA

6 to 7 glowing orange/yellow balls in sky

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-23
Where
Murrells Inlet, SC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
few minutes
Geo
33.551, -79.041 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-murrells-inlet-sc-2012-0c55f2
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

  • Murrells Inlet, SC shows up 26 times across the archive.
  • 186 reports came from South Carolina in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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