Honolulu, HI, USA
A bright light seemed to appear out of nowhere off the coast of Hawaii Kai on Oahu. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-01-07
- Where
- Honolulu, HI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 21.307, -157.858 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-honolulu-hi-2019-4f2f59
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 127 reports logged in Honolulu, HI.
- This case is one of 49 Hawaii reports filed in 2019.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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