Ka'anapali, HI, USA
2am on 9/18 I saw an oval shape object bright red/orange slowly moved south, stopped, moved north, the moved up and disappeared.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-18
- Where
- Ka'anapali, HI, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 60 seconds
- Geo
- 20.929, -156.694 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-ka-anapali-hi-2009-8bdb49
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
- Ka'anapali, HI shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 19 reports came from Hawaii in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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