UFOMYST
CaseOval1997

Hanalei, Kauai, HI, USA

1997 Kauai UFO does a light show and then flys 100 ft over my head

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-11
Where
Hanalei, Kauai, HI, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
22.202, -159.503 · exact
Slug
oval-over-hanalei-kauai-hi-1997-cbe54e
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Hanalei, Kauai, HI shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 6 reports came from Hawaii in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 3.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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