Fireball over Hana, HI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
8-10 firey red and orange flares fly over Hana, HI, toward Haleakala.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2013-02-06 → 2013-02-23
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December 16, 2017 · 6:37 AM · FIREBALL
Hana, HI
What looked like the ISS space station at a low altitude was cruising across the sky at a pretty fast pace but there was another smaller craft that was also lit up but not as bright that was clearly following it and gaining on it. It was getting closer to the larger possible ISS before they both disappeared behind the trees. I was looking in an East direction towards the ocean. This happened over the Lauhala forest between me and the sea when I saw it. Neither had blinking lights. But then out of nowhere another light started falling from the sky like a falling star from the recent meteor shower but then it started getting very bright glowing a brilliant white light and huge! Then it got smaller and dimmer and dimmer and then appeared to start moving in a parallel direction the north and kept going. It never burned out and then it too disappeared over the trees. The cows were going crazy mooing loud and non stop during this event and have since stopped.
April 11, 2017 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT
Hana, HI
we were sitting at the porch watching the night sky , it was partially clouded but some of the stars were visible when suddenly in the eastern direction two identical lights appeared in very far distance , they first appeared as stars but they were moving quickly in synchronized way and they seemed to be apart by a considerable distance, they were not blinking like an aircraft , they were not helicopters, they appeared really far and then one completely vanished and maybe a second later the other one disappeared into the dark sky , we have never seen anything similar in the night sky , it was a very quiet night and I wouldn't expect any noise from those lights anyways as they really seemed to be very very far and I would estimate the source of the lights had to be massive
September 11, 2014 · 7:45 PM · CIRCLE
Hana, HI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 1, 2013 · 11:00 PM
Hana, HI
Odd lights illuminating the clouds, like in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.