NUFORC Sighting 110577

Occurred: 2014-06-23 22:00 Local
Reported: 2014-06-24 08:27 Pacific
Duration: 40 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Garden City, SC, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Changed Colo

My family is vacationing at Garden City.

Last night I walked onto balcony of condo and saw three large orange lights come on, one two three in a row. We had seen this phenomena three years ago here.

I called to my family to come see the lights. Within a few minutes successive large red/orange fireballs would illuminate and extinguish.

Then we noticed small blinking lights, numerous, up to ten at a time moving all over the sky in the area of the big orange lights. All of this activity seemed to be from Garden City pier to Myrtle Beach State Park and mostly over ocean. Any number of arrangement of lights were seen up to a large perfectly shaped chevron shape formed by eight of the big fireballs.

The fireballs appeared as groups of three and four tightly spaced as well. At some intervals between fireball appearances there were as much as 5 to 10 solid minutes of small sparkling lights moving for miles up and down the coast.

I am employed in aviation and I am! reasonably convinced that no aircraft were seen. The appearance as well as the silence had more of a ghostly feel than of nuts and bolts aircraft.

Many people were on beach so im sure others witnessed.

Posted 2014-06-24