UFOMYST
CaseLight2010

North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

This was an orange ball of light just over the Atlantic Ocean near the shore and just below the night stars. The lights were larger tha

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-08-10
Where
North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
33.816, -78.680 · exact
Slug
light-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2010-f26602
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 →

In context

  • North Myrtle Beach, SC shows up 131 times across the archive.
  • 70 reports came from South Carolina in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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