Formation over Kapalua/Molokai, HI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Four vertical lights, evenly spaced, top three lights LED white, bottom light LED red. Observed at Kapalua looking up and out to the right of Molokai in open ocean, silently descending from stratosphere toward horizon where sky meets water. Took about 3 minutes for bottom red light to reach horizon, then they moved to the left in unison, remaining in perfect vertical formation and disappeared in front of Molokai cliffs. Project Loon perhaps?
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #149044). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-09-13 → 2019-09-30