Changing over Waimea, HI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Last night on the beach, Polihale State Park, HI: A shooting star caught my eye, I pointed it out to two people who were with me. We saw the "shooting star" stop flaring and stop moving. Next to where it stopped, two "stars" that were near where the "shooter" stopped started moving away from each other, opposite directions and equal speed. The entire shape from "shooting star" to "moving stars" looked to form a "T". I looked down for a second to ask the people I was with if they were seeing what I was seeing, they confirmed. We looked back up and we couldn't find the lights again.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #138039). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-12-26 → 2018-01-12
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