Unknown over North Myrtle Beach, SC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A flicker of light with a gas like cloud moves from my sight as another gas cloud movement behind it. I had to prove to my mother that I was not on drugs with a visit to my doctor. I have a picture but you can’t really see it like you can in real time. It slows down as if it knows I see it, then takes off to its destination. Quick shooting beams emit from the star like light. Almost as if it was a headlight or a beam of light shooting to another starlike light but doesn’t stay on like a head light. Just a shooting beam of light, it’s how I was attracted to pay closer attention. I have one daytime photo of two metal objects peaking out of clouds as it was a rainy day during that time during photo. I don’t know exactly how to explain what I seen so I hope that this makes sense to someone reading this.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #179502). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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January 1, 2023 · 7:01 AM · CYLINDER
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December 2, 2021 · 7:30 PM · FORMATION
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August 10, 2021 · 10:30 PM · OTHER
North Myrtle Beach, SC
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May 14, 2021 · 11:50 PM · CHANGING
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Last night while watching comedy on Netflix, I observed an orange light flash outside my beachfront condo. When it did it again I got up and got my binoculars and my iPhone to take a picture. I could see many lights out over the ocean but thru the binoculars I can see that some of them are moving very erratically and changing color equally as fast. I took a picture and when you enlarge the photo you can see one of the lights is a red color and looks to have energy coming from it. The ufos stayed there for more than 40 mins.
January 20, 2021 · 8:20 PM · SPHERE
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