Sphere over Kilauea, HI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was surfing at Rock Quarries beach and immediately noticed this bright white and glowing spherical object hovering in the sky above the bluff. Then I noticed a missile trail and it came very close to the object but skirted around it. At one point I saw 4 missiles at once going all around the object but it did not move. I counted at least 10 missiles while I was in the water and just assumed it was a military exercise with a huge white drone. After getting out of the ocean I was speaking to a friend who was watching the whole thing from Anini beach to the West. She said they heard at least 3 explosions which I could hear while chatting with her. All of the missiles I saw went in arcs around the hovering object. This incident lasted for close to 2 hours!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #166709). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-02-11 → 2022-02-28
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