NUFORC Sighting 120839

Occurred: 2009-10-10 05:00 Local
Reported: 2015-08-02 18:45 Pacific
Duration: ~2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Disc-like object emitting a cluster of lights spotted over Myrtle Beach, SC.

Around 5:00AM on October 10, 2009, I was sitting on a balcony of the South Beach Resort (XXXX ((numbers deleted)) S Ocean Blvd) in Myrtle Beach, facing the ocean. A light appeared over the horizon just above the surface of the water, and as it grew closer, I could see that it was a cluster of four large lights, hovering silently toward the land.

Over the span of just a minute or two, it hovered from the water toward the hotel, ascending steadily at a 45 degree angle to the ground until it was out of sight. When I took a photo on my phone, the lights were not visible, and the object's shape was disc like. I will send the photo via email.

At the time, I was a seventeen-year-old high school student and never would have thought to report it. No one else that I know of witnessed the event. I'm currently a graduate student studying early American roots music, and cryptozoology is nothing to which I have ever given much thought.

However, I recently saw a special which described the 1967 sighting at Shag Harbor, Nova Scotia, and the event sounded so eerily similar that I thought my sighting might warrant sharing with an expert.

Posted 2015-08-06