Kailua, HI, USA
The object came down extremely fast, then shot off into the distant horizon. When it left it made a deep bass rumble.
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 (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-10-09
- Where
- Kailua, HI, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 21.402, -157.741 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-kailua-hi-2015-98735f
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, HI has 10 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 27 reports from Hawaii.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 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.