UFOMYST
CaseFlash2019

Captain Cook, HI, USA

I thought it was lightning. It light up the dark sky, and then I heard a crashing sound.when I went outside there was clear skies. I wa

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-09-21
Where
Captain Cook, HI, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
19.497, -155.922 · exact
Slug
flash-over-captain-cook-hi-2019-150ae7
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

  • One of 4 documented reports from Captain Cook, HI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Hawaii logged 49 sightings in 2019.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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