UFOMYST
CaseSphere2014

Surfside, SC, USA

Multiple orange/red spheres over ocean. Seemed to fly to one spot in sky and then fade out.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-07-04
Where
Surfside, SC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 hour
Geo
33.606, -78.973 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-surfside-sc-2014-926c5a
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

July 2014 was a busy month for Surfside, SC: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Surfside, SC.
  • This case is one of 260 South Carolina reports filed in 2014.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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