Hilo, HI, USA
Orangeish pulsating light is stationary for 3 minutes, then makes abrupt movements in zig zag motion to the left before disapearing
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-11-15
- Where
- Hilo, HI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4min
- Geo
- 19.730, -155.091 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-hilo-hi-2005-4e04e9
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
- Hilo, HI shows up 15 times across the archive.
- 17 reports came from Hawaii in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.