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
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…
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 daysReport
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