CaseSphere2020
Kihei, HI, USA
White golf ball shaped object hurtling across a clear blue sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-04
- Where
- Kihei, HI, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 20.765, -156.446 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-kihei-hi-2020-a8cb5d
Wave
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
- Kihei, HI has 22 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 46 reports from Hawaii.
- The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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