Pawleys Island, SC, USA
4 evenly spaced hot orange lights 'switched on' and hung horizontally for 30-40 sec over Atlantic Ocean.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-06-08
- Where
- Pawleys Island, SC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 sec
- Geo
- 33.433, -79.121 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-pawleys-island-sc-2011-cc69fa
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
- One of 39 documented reports from Pawleys Island, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Carolina logged 117 sightings in 2011.
Report
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