Unknown over Murrells Inlet, SC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
speed and direction ----indications that they were unusual
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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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2005-02-17 → 2005-03-06
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October 27, 2021 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Murrells Inlet, SC
I was looking south east from my bedroom window with my girlfriend. We then saw a white light in the sky. It was traveling very fast to the east and all of the sudden instantly reversed direction. It would have killed a person from the g-forces. It then turned on a blue light that I can only explain as a blue shield around it. You could still see the white light in the center. It then started flying in circles and loops as if it were scanning the area and headed east over the horizon.
August 20, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Murrells Inlet, SC
We saw 2 equal distant horizontal random blinking lights high in the sky. At first we thought they were 2 planes but they stayed the same distance apart and, unlike planes that you can always see a solid light in addition to the blinking wing lights, these were completely dark in between the flashes. There was also no sound (we heard planes flying over many times that were that high in the sky and you could hear their engines). We watched it come from west to east across the sky and then it stopped over the ocean. The 2 blinking lights became solid, bright white/yellow lights and it hovered silently over the ocean for a minute. The lights were horizontal to the ocean, seemingly looking toward the beach. Then the solid lights went out and the blinking lights started again and it flew out over the ocean toward the horizon. Minutes later we saw 6-8 more blinking lights out on the horizon far away, moving south slowly (left to right) before they just disappeared one at a time.
August 15, 2020 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Murrells Inlet, SC
Three round objects with bright lights disappeared in a blink of eye
June 2, 2018 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Murrells Inlet, SC
Red ball moving across the night sky faster than plane but not like meteor, all red, moving swiftly horizontally.
June 4, 2016 · 9:23 PM · CIRCLE
Murrells Inlet, SC
After the 3 were gone the 4th came in even quicker and larger. It also was round and bright orange like fire, but it also had an aura look around it. It to disappeared in the same spot as the others.
January 20, 2015 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Murrells Inlet, SC
On Tuesday evening, Jan. 20th, 2015 at 9 PM, I walked out front to run an errand, and noticed movement coming from the southwest sky; there were 3 sets of lights approaching very slowly. At first I thought they might be military planes in close formation but as they got closer I realized there was absolutely no sound and they were traveling - more like gliding - much slower than conventional aircraft. The weather was perfectly clear and the night seemed remarkably quiet. After about 1 minute, the formation passed directly over my driveway at an estimated altitude of 250 feet and each craft appeared to be the same size or a little larger than the wingspan of small private planes at that height. I observed 3 dark triangle-shaped objects with red nose lights and smaller green & white lights on the side points. The shape of the objects was like a flattened triangle or boomerang as the distance between the green/white lights was very wide and approx. twice the span from the front to side. The red lights seemed unusually large and remained constant; the green & white lights blinked alternately. I could not make out any detail on the bottom of the craft. I ran into the house and grabbed my primitive camera phone, but could not capture anything but dark night sky. I watched the formation move off to the northeast, then jumped in my car and followed it for another 4-5 minutes until it eventually went out of view over Myrtle Beach. It seemed to be following along the Highway 17 Bypass, and maintained the same steady speed for the entire sighting, which lasted 7-8 minutes.