North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Bright fast moving light off coast in alternating patterns
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-05-31
- Where
- North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10-15 minutes
- Geo
- 33.816, -78.680 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2018-92203a
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 North Myrtle Beach, SC reports filed in May 2018.
In context
- North Myrtle Beach, SC shows up 131 times across the archive.
- 78 reports came from South Carolina in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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