CaseFormation2020

Kailua, HI, USA

Moving across the sky south toward east a formation of 40+ things that looked like stars. (("Starlink" satellites??))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 330s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-05
Where
Kailua, HI, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5-6 minutes
Geo
21.402, -157.741 · exact
Slug
formation-over-kailua-hi-2020-954034
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

  • One of 10 documented reports from Kailua, HI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Hawaii logged 46 sightings in 2020.
  • Formation sightings ran at 5.2% during the 2020s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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