UFOMYST
CaseSphere2018

North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Five-seven orange spheres in night sky above Atlantic ocean, facing directly east. No noise associated the apparitions. Seen by two a

Report quality: High73/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 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
Sphere
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
33.816, -78.680 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-north-myrtle-beach-sc-2018-3c7e91
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

4 reports came out of North Myrtle Beach, SC in May 2018 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • North Myrtle Beach, SC has 131 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 78 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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