CaseLight2008

Hanalei, HI, USA

We saw six orange lights appear over Hanalei Bay, Kauaii

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-28
Where
Hanalei, HI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1:30
Geo
22.202, -159.503 · exact
Slug
light-over-hanalei-hi-2008-2111e8
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

  • Hanalei, HI shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 18 reports came from Hawaii in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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