CaseFlash2004

Oahu, HI, USA

Large,glowing green,yellow,white ball of light flew over me,hovered & dropped into the ocean.Aircraft followed to investigate.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-12-06
Where
Oahu, HI, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
21.433, -157.967 · exact
Slug
flash-over-oahu-hi-2004-99c849
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…

In context

  • Oahu, HI shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 18 reports came from Hawaii in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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