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CaseSphere2012

Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Driving home from work on 501 we saw 2 orange lights in the sky and they faded within seconds. From our position we could tell that th

Report quality: High89/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 7 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-08-08
Where
Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.689, -78.887 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-myrtle-beach-sc-2012-d57593
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

9 reports came out of Myrtle Beach, SC in August 2012 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Myrtle Beach, SC has 292 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 186 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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