UFOMYST
CaseFireball2015

Ocean View, HI, USA

6 Fireballs with long tails seen over the Hawaiian Islands. Watched for 10 seconds. ((NUFORC Note: Satellite re-entry. PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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  • Duration parsed: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (83 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2015-08-30
Where
Ocean View, HI, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
38.545, -75.089 · fallback
Slug
fireball-over-ocean-view-hi-2015-fbcbb4
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

  • Ocean View, HI shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 27 reports came from Hawaii in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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