UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

Naalehu, HI, USA

It looked like a natural object (for a meteor) but it didn't follow the laws of gravity

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-15
Where
Naalehu, HI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 MIN.
Geo
19.068, -155.580 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-naalehu-hi-1997-ec1fa6
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Naalehu, HI shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 6 reports came from Hawaii in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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