CaseLight1969
At sea (Between Panama & Hawaii), HI, USA
Aboard a ship at sea between Panama and Hawaii, personnel reported a high-speed radar track detected on gunfire-control radar in April 1969, during a five-minute observation.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (174 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1969-04-15
- Where
- At sea (Between Panama & Hawaii), HI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-at-sea-between-panama-hawaii-hi-1969-344ebe
In context
- At sea (Between Panama & Hawaii), HI shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Hawaii in 1969.
- In the 1960s, 11.3% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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