CaseSphere2022

Kilauea, HI, USA

A bright white spherical object was hovering stationary but appeared to be vibrating. We witnessed at least 10 missiles that came close

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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-02-14
Where
Kilauea, HI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
90 minutes
Geo
22.212, -159.413 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-kilauea-hi-2022-243cc6
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

  • Kilauea, HI has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2022 brought 11 reports from Hawaii.
  • The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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