CaseFireball2012

Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Fiery ball of light slowly growing bigger then fading away all in sequence in triangular formation with other lights.

Report quality: High85/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (117 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 7 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-10-24
Where
Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2-4 minutes
Geo
33.689, -78.887 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-myrtle-beach-sc-2012-f386c7
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

9 reports came out of Myrtle Beach, SC in October 2012 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Myrtle Beach, SC has 292 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 186 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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