UFOMYST
CaseCigar2017

Waikoloa, HI, USA

Strange Events and Object in Morning Sky over Big Island

Report quality: Moderate48/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-15
Where
Waikoloa, HI, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
19.939, -155.789 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-waikoloa-hi-2017-93ac7d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Waikoloa, HI.
  • This case is one of 16 Hawaii reports filed in 2017.
  • Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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