CaseCircle2020

Honolulu, HI, USA

UFO spotted in photo after picture taken. No aircraft were spotted in the sky prior to he photo.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-03
Where
Honolulu, HI, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 second
Geo
21.307, -157.858 · exact
Slug
circle-over-honolulu-hi-2020-582179
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Honolulu, HI reports filed in July 2020.

In context

  • Honolulu, HI shows up 127 times across the archive.
  • 46 reports came from Hawaii in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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