UFOMYST
CaseSphere2009

Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Orange lights appearing in half-circle formation over the shoreline of Myrtle Beach.

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2009-10-08
Where
Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
45 mins.
Geo
33.689, -78.887 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-myrtle-beach-sc-2009-ebce9b
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Myrtle Beach, SC logged 3 reports in the single month of October 2009.

In context

  • One of 292 documented reports from Myrtle Beach, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 68 sightings in 2009.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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