CaseRectangle2021

Makawao, HI, USA

4 huge rectangle lights on north side of haleakala. Just sat there for 10 min or more.. ((NUFORC Note: Date is flawed. PD))

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-10-06
Where
Makawao, HI, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
20.857, -156.313 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-makawao-hi-2021-7e4987
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 7 documented reports from Makawao, HI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Hawaii logged 9 sightings in 2021.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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