North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
One large red fireball descending from sky, which broke into 7 others and proceeded to blink and move sparatically.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-06-20
- Where
- North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.816, -78.680 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2013-a9dbdc
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of North Myrtle Beach, SC in June 2013 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- North Myrtle Beach, SC has 131 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 159 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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