CaseUnknown2009
Pawleys Island, NC, USA
Red Orange Light off the Coast of South Carolina
Report quality: Moderate54/100
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
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-04-08
- Where
- Pawleys Island, NC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- <10 Secs
- Geo
- 33.433, -79.121 · fallback
- Slug
- unknown-over-pawleys-island-nc-2009-d5e51f
Wave
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…
In context
- Pawleys Island, NC shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 125 reports came from North Carolina in 2009.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.