UFOMYST
CaseCigar1973

Kapaa, HI, USA

Five of f us witnessed a cigar-shaped wingless aircraft with a light shining inside of its windows hover over us..

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 (114 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-11-23
Where
Kapaa, HI, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
22.075, -159.319 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-kapaa-hi-1973-c75b8d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    The Great 1973 Flap

    United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest

    With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…

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In context

  • This is one of 13 reports logged in Kapaa, HI.
  • This case is one of 3 Hawaii reports filed in 1973.
  • Cigar craft made up 5.2% of 1970s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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