UFOMYST
CaseCircle2018

Lahania, HI, USA

Over ocean. Disk, standing still rotating for a few minutes, changed colors, moves 1800 +- meters in less then a second horizontal.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-10-07
Where
Lahania, HI, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
—
Slug
circle-over-lahania-hi-2018-8171ac
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…

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In context

  • Lahania, HI shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 12 reports came from Hawaii in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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