Kailua Kona, HI, USA
20-25 lights, at first mistaken for stars, headed in a straight line, southeast bound. (("Starlink" satellites??))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-18
- Where
- Kailua Kona, HI, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 19.640, -155.999 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-kailua-kona-hi-2020-a83f05
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
- Kailua Kona, HI shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 46 reports came from Hawaii in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.