Other over St. Simons Island, GA

The report, as filed

I was flying my aircraft to maintain night currency, on left base to runway 7 at KBQK, the Brunswick airport. this would have put me on a course of 160. Toward the ocean, at an altitude that appeared to be at about my altitude, 800 to 1000 feet, I saw a string of what appeared to be orange flares, in a mostly horizontal alignment, proceeding left to right, north to south, roughly along the beach or slightly off shore. I asked another aircraft if he had seen that, which he had not. I continued my night currency flights. The fire station asked if I had seen anything, and I responded that I had. They asked if I would fly over and take a look, which I did. I did not see anything else besides three or four fishing boats. The moon was several days past full. The sky was partly clear to the east, but thick, with thunderstorms to the north, north west, and south west. There was significant lightning.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #129461). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.