UFOMYST
CaseSphere2013

North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Large amber/orange sphere glowing above beach no sound, no blinking lights, sitting still for 1-2 min., disappeared into thin air.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-08-14
Where
North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
33.816, -78.680 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2013-d8bd10
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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In context

  • North Myrtle Beach, SC shows up 131 times across the archive.
  • 159 reports came from South Carolina in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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