CaseSphere2013

Kihei, HI, USA

Silent orb w/white-blue central light w/numerous encircling red lights in a translucent green glowing bubble, flew, hovered, descended.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-12-21
Where
Kihei, HI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
20.765, -156.446 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-kihei-hi-2013-5b1958
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

December 2013 was a busy month for Kihei, HI: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 22 reports logged in Kihei, HI.
  • This case is one of 53 Hawaii reports filed in 2013.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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