UFOMYST
CaseFireball2018

North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

There is currently a single fireball shape hovering high over the water in the S sky. ((anonymous source))((NUFORC Note: Mars? PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2018-07-15
Where
North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
Happening now! For over 3
Geo
33.816, -78.680 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2018-58245b
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of North Myrtle Beach, SC in July 2018 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • North Myrtle Beach, SC has 131 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 78 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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