UFOMYST
CaseFormation2008

Honaunau, HI, USA

Unidentified orange lights maintaining t he shape of a backwards question mark over the coast of the Kona coast of The Big Island ,

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-04-27
Where
Honaunau, HI, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
19.427, -155.913 · exact
Slug
formation-over-honaunau-hi-2008-91c9e0
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

  • Honaunau, HI has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 18 reports from Hawaii.
  • The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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