UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

Pawleys Island, SC, USA

Red flare-like object appeared 15-30 degrees above horizon. The object proceeded towards the horizon line at an extremely high speed. A

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-09
Where
Pawleys Island, SC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 second
Geo
33.433, -79.121 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-pawleys-island-sc-2016-3e647e
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

  • Pawleys Island, SC shows up 39 times across the archive.
  • 97 reports came from South Carolina in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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