Light over Kona, HI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Object cross the sky at a rate of at least 10 times the speed of a satellite starting from 218’ southwest to 179’ degrees south and smoothly decended in a arch down and swooped back up across its original path and disappeared
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #148693). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-09-04 → 2019-09-21
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