North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Large bright light stationary in the sky, watched for a good 8-10min then had to run to the store real quick before 9pm. When I got bac
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-02-08
- Where
- North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 33.816, -78.680 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2017-c44bdb
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
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In context
- This is one of 131 reports logged in North Myrtle Beach, SC.
- This case is one of 109 South Carolina reports filed in 2017.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
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