UFOMYST
CaseFlash2013

Lahaina, HI, USA

Saw a bright flash fall from the sky straight down to the ocean. Witnessed on Maui but object could have been over Oahu.

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-11-05
Where
Lahaina, HI, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
20.875, -156.680 · exact
Slug
flash-over-lahaina-hi-2013-a59258
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 23 documented reports from Lahaina, HI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Hawaii logged 53 sightings in 2013.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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