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
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…
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 daysReport
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