CaseFireball2013

Waikoloa, HI, USA

This was an orange/violet energy ball that moved slowly and then accelerated at a high rate of speed and disappeared into a cloud.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-06-22
Where
Waikoloa, HI, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
19.939, -155.789 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-waikoloa-hi-2013-99f149
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…

In context

  • Waikoloa, HI has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 53 reports from Hawaii.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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