North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Two instances of strange lights over the ocean, one right after the other.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-08
- Where
- North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.816, -78.680 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2012-440db8
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
North Myrtle Beach, SC logged 6 reports in the single month of August 2012.
In context
- One of 131 documented reports from North Myrtle Beach, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Carolina logged 186 sightings in 2012.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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