Murrells Inlet, SC, USA
It happened twice within a 20 minutes span.3 people saw it the first time 3 people saw it the second time 3 lights then a V shape 1
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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-11
- Where
- Murrells Inlet, SC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 - 20 seconds
- Geo
- 33.551, -79.041 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-murrells-inlet-sc-2012-08dcfb
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
Murrells Inlet, SC logged 3 reports in the single month of September 2012.
In context
- One of 26 documented reports from Murrells Inlet, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Carolina logged 186 sightings in 2012.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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