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CaseFireball2013

Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

While on vacation, I saw one medium sized orange circular fireball smoothly gliding in the air over the ocean, yet it turned in differe

Report quality: High73/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-12-31
Where
Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
33.689, -78.887 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-myrtle-beach-sc-2013-b946c6
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Myrtle Beach, SC reports filed in December 2013.

In context

  • Myrtle Beach, SC shows up 292 times across the archive.
  • 159 reports came from South Carolina in 2013.
  • 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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