Pawleys Island, SC, USA
Coming back to beach house 2 nights ago-saw what looked like a very very bright star gold in color. Became more intense, then faded.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-06-21
- Where
- Pawleys Island, SC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 33.433, -79.121 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-pawleys-island-sc-2014-e0ad52
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
6 reports came out of Pawleys Island, SC in June 2014 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Pawleys Island, SC has 39 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 260 reports from South Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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