UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2014

Kailua Kona, HI, USA

Looks like a multi-colored bright colored flickering orb about 1,000' high S of Kailua Kona. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius confirmed. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2014-02-25
Where
Kailua Kona, HI, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
2 hours
Geo
19.640, -155.999 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-kailua-kona-hi-2014-89fc4a
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 13 reports logged in Kailua Kona, HI.
  • This case is one of 70 Hawaii reports filed in 2014.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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