As reported

Light over Garden City Beach, SC

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The report, as filed

A series of eight orange-red lights, four horizontal, and 2 sets of 2 vertical, lasting 15 to 30 seconds each

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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July 4, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING

Garden City Beach, SC

While watching Murrells Inlet Fireworks, I watched a number of lights positioned at various points surrounding me, and changing position, color, and apparent shape frequently. Some remained fairly stationary, retaining their magenta/red hue, seemingly drifting up, down, and sideways un-eventfully, yet maintaining their brightness. Others would blink on, grow brighter, and race from position to position, moving what I estimate to be about a mile in seconds. Some would dim and blink out, only to re-appear nearby, growing brighter as they moved rapidly from side to side, then up and down. The best was a magenta light that changed to a brilliant emerald green color and started blinking rapidly. This ship stayed close, brilliant and visible the whole time I was watching. There was also one very bright stationary magenta craft that followed this same pattern. I could not make out craft shapes due to their distance from me, however there is no doubt they were intelligently controlled, and in my opinion, 'not from around here'. It was very interesting that although there were about 30 folks with us watching the fireworks, none saw the lights, or at least none remarked as such. All of this stopped once the fireworks were over. One craft that did come close, may have had a bell shape, not sure. AMAZING!!!

May 15, 2017 · 10:15 PM · CHANGING

Garden City Beach, SC

We were on an Ocean Front balcony when the first lights appeared. They were two shapes on the first sighting a set of four linear round orange balls and four to five orange sphere shaped of a slightly larger size. The lights were all on and then one by one went off. They were not flashing, they were solid in color. We were stunned. We waited and about 10 minutes later they appeared a little farther south over the ocean. This time they were two separate sets of round orange lights (no sphere shaped) that were perfectly linear, a dark space of the sky separating the two, which made it difficult to tell if two objects or one large. Each linear set was made up of 4 solid huge orange balls or orbs (we think, it's kind of fading in our mind, weird) They once again went black one by one and we never saw them again. We sky watched the remainder of the week with binoculars and video cameras.

June 12, 2013 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN