Honolulu, HI, USA
saw bright flame across sky twice, followed by tiny red lights, one moving in a sprial pattern and others stationary in the sky.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-21
- Where
- Honolulu, HI, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- couple minutes
- Geo
- 21.307, -157.858 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-honolulu-hi-2004-acffa1
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…
Local cluster
October 2004 was a busy month for Honolulu, HI: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 127 reports logged in Honolulu, HI.
- This case is one of 18 Hawaii reports filed in 2004.
- Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.