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Hawaii UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 665 UFO sighting reports in Hawaii to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (179 reports, 26.92% of total).
- January is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (75 reports, 11.28% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (113 reports, 16.99% of total).
- 05/20/14 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (8 reports, 1.20% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (71 reports, 10.68% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (262 reports, 39.40% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Hawaii
These Hawaii UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Maybe military vessels with a military helicopter overhead I saw out on the horizon what looked at first like a large island. Then I saw a military helicopter circling above. As I focused in I noticed it was vessels possibly military.
I started taking pictures and captured a large UFO high above the ships then lowered and hovered above the vessels. Two orb like UFOs appeared out of the ocean and i caught a picture of those .i actually was trying to photograph what looked like a floating island and caught site of the UFOs by accident.
What got my attention in the beginning was the military helicopter probably from Pohakuloa military installation on Mauna Kea.
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Saw this twice in one week. Saw on Thursday on north shore cause in Live Photo today unknowingly. Saucer.
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Saw a white light circle float & come across the skyline over my view of Pearl Harbor that phased out and disappeared from view It was unknown if related , but, A cluster of soft white cloudy-ish lights in a three v formation streaked across the skyline very quickly catching my attention, so I grabbed my iPhone and recorded this clip of a soft white orb light floating across the vantage point from our housing community up a ways from Pearl Harbor. The white light can be seen for about :40 seconds and then it just phased out and disappeared from view after floating across from my left to right.
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Objects in pics not seen during photography. Noticed next morning when reviewing. I've sent a few pictures that I think you might find interesting.
Or at least give a plausible explanation. One is a close up of the object in question and the other is the actual photo of the sunset with the object upper-center-left appearing as a small dot. The third is the object closer and has moved to upper-center-right.
Please note: neither my girlfriend or I noticed the object when the photos were taken. Not until this morning when I was looking at the pictures did I see them yet they are clearly visible. Look forward to hearing from you and hearing what you think we are seeing here.
Location: Nimitz Beach, Oahu, Directly across the street from the US Coast Guard Station. Date: 21 October 23 Time: ~6:00PM.
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I was at the beach fishing I have been fishing in Maui on the beach’s for over 30 years and have never seen anything like this before very fast moving object and beam of light going up it was about 5 to 7 miles out I have amazing pictures no video I saw it go into the water butt it’s was far way and a minute later came up into the sky and very fast went towards Molokini.
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High altitude white star moves across the sky and vanishes Coordinates of observation position is 21.26614° N, 157.81542° W A white, star-like object moved across the bright night sky in a NNW direction about 45 degrees.
Altitude was at least 30K feet. It moved like a jet until it disappeared right before my eyes. The Northern sky was bright and clear.
The Big Dipper was in the field of view and situated to the left of the moving object. The duration of this sighting was 5-10 seconds.
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Dark sphere crossed highway ahead of me, turned right and quickly disappeared I am a 67-year old woman residing in Kailua Kona, Hawaii. This morning at roughly 10:20 AM (give or take a couple of minutes), I was stopped at a traffic light on Hawaii 19 at the intersection of Kealakehe Parkway. It was a clear day, blue sky all around.
Waiting for the light to change, just looking out the car window, I saw a dark-colored sphere in the sky moving quickly from East to West. My initial impression was that it was not a plane, wrong size/shape. Then I thought of drones, but it was moving way too fast to be a drone.
The sphere passed across the highway and then turned right, heading North. It suddenly shrank from view, reduced to a pin-point size and very quickly disappeared. I have never seen a plane or other flying object disappear so very quickly.
Here in Kona, I live at an elevation of 1,500 feet above Kona International Airport, so I’m very familiar with seeing all sorts of commercial planes, military planes, private planes and helicopters. This resembled none of those. Also, in this area we never see aircraft flying east to west, as Mount Hualalai rises 8,00 feet from the ocean to the east.
I would estimate the total time from noticing it until it disappeared was 3 seconds, at most 4 seconds. Most of that time was the initial movement I saw, from East to West, before it turned north and rapidly disappeared.
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Two very bright lights. Circled shape at first, but changed. Extremely fast, as if their chasing one another.
Disappears into mid air. It’s Sunday morning. It’s Father’s Day.
Surprised my dad with breakfast and coffee. Proceeded to wash my clothes and get ready for the new work week. I proceed to the back area of our house where our washers and driers are located.
I open the back door, it’s a beautiful morning. Before actually putting my clothes into the washer I stopped to admire what was such a beautiful clear morning. The skies were blue, the clouds were so white, there’s a slight breeze so the clouds moved.
I live in Pauoa Valley, looking at punchbowl crater admiring the beautiful greenery all around me. The birds chirping. Perfect O’ahu weather.
As I’m staring into the sky, Watching the clouds blow. It’s about 8:33 a.m I see what appears to be two extremely bright lights zooming fast in the air, as if they were chasing each other.
Dancing around each other. It would disappear into mid air, and reappear at a higher or lower altitude. As I continued to watch this happen, my phone was in the house, it would take me 15 seconds from the back door to grab it.
I didn’t want to leave. I felt if I left to grab my phone even for only 15 seconds, what I saw/witnessed would disappear. I ran in the house, I grabbed my phone, before recording I visually located the objects, immediately I see the lights proceeded, dancing around one another and zooming in mid air disappearing again.
As if they were playing around with one another. Kinda like tag, but these objects were flying at speeds I can’t even explain. These lights were bright.
I started recording I got it on video for 1:08 seconds. I couldn’t believe in what I was seeing. I stopped recording and called my mother to run down the stairs and come to the back as fast as she could, I needed a witness.
My mother got to me in seconds. My father proceeded to follow my mother thinking something was wrong because I called frantic. I did not want to seem like I was crazy, or just wondering if my eyes were playing tricks on me.
I pointed it out to my parents in the sky, and they witnessed it with me for a minute or a little more. These objects were flying extremely fast. It looked circular shaped but when zooming through the sky, and the lights it almost looked like one may have been triangular shaped and the other circular.
There was a shadow, like a dark ring around the object. Myself along with my parents were able to witness what happened this morning. I am reaching out in hopes someone will take the time to review my video and help me justify what we all experienced.
Thank you for your time.
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I know what a plane or chopper look like, it is a white circular traveling along the horizon from front to back of lobby 8 terminal 2 I was on my work break 5am may 20, 2023, I was outside lobby 8 terminal 2 of the airport, I look up to the sky and notice this white orb traveling from the front of lobby 8 towards the rear of lobby 8, terminal 2 of the Daniel K Inouye International airport, i observed it for about a minute or 2 then disappeared.
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Watching fireworks, something hovers and Flys. Please watch all the way to the end. Watching fireworks go off and out of nowhere something hovers from the left side of the screen and zooms away.
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While standing on the Waikiki walkway which extends onto water around after sundown we saw 5 blue orbs. Walking down the dark walkway extended into the ocean we immediately noted 5 blue orb like objects flying almost what looked to be in a formation. No sound was heard.
Seems to be fairly distant. Intially thought they were stars but noted they were all rapidly moving away from the island and westward as the first 2 slowly dimmed as if they were flying away from the island. What also caught our attention what the 3rd and 4th objects rapidly dropped and regained altitude and approached each other while following the first 2 and the 5th following behind without changes in its altitude.
Initially none of them changed their flight allttiude and seemed to go straight across the sky. The colour a light blue for all 5 and very bright and gradually dimmed as they made their way southwest. We saw multiple aircraft taking off and landing from Honolulu airport- they all had beacons and very bright lights when approaching the airport or taking off, none of which looked like these objects.
These objects did not flicker like flares.
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Unexpected red ( reflecting voggy atmosphere) object in photo Taking pics of Orion about 2 hours after sunset. Noticed Sirius was sparkling like a diamond below. Took picture.
Then magnified to see how close i could bring the star. Noticed then the red object( reflecting red from volcanic haze in atmosphere?) I thought it odd and unrecognizable to me.then heard about Chinese surveillance and thought if might be that kind of object.
Anyway, thought i would send it to you considering the hoopla in our skies lately.
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A brilliant small circle of light, high in the sky, no sound, travelled from the South Shore near Honolulu to the Northeast Oahu The object traveled steadily in the above direction, slowing down a few times; it turned red when flying out of view. This was unlike any of us (my wife and I) had ever seen a plane look like or behave.
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Saw UFO after taking photo of the sunset I saw this object after I took a photograph of a sunset outdoors in Kauai. It is a live photograph, so touch the photograph, and you’ll see the object move quickly around. Enlarge it and look at the detail of it and it sure looks like a foreign object!.
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Numerous greenish twinkling stars in a swarm slowing drifting over ocean. Saw group of starlike things 20 plus twinkling and drifting together high in night sky. Not stars though.
All twinkled same greenish color. Too high in sky to photograph . Then they disappeared all at same time,.
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Mothership, shield and orbiting streaky and white spheres While stargazing from 3am till after sunrise and a perfectly clear Hawaiian sky - A very large ship inside a flaming shield came in from the East and west bound from the Pacific ocean. It was a banana shaped dark ship inside a radiant flaming shield and outside the shield two white spheres created streaks while orbiting the ship. Hilo seems to turn into a Ufo racetrack.
The object resembles a giant Stardestroyer as an analogy. I estimate the size to be 500-1500m. It is BIG.
To big to hide anywhere but underwater or, nearest, behind the moon. It flew towards space at the end and that means the Ufo garage is the solar system? The shield was irradiant and showed rainbow blobs. The upperside flamed.
The lower part of the shield did not.from my point of view The blobs in the shield seemed to react to the suns rays during sunrise with spectral colors but also the white spherical drones seemed to influence the shield. Ship and drones seemed to be of a different tech or tech-level.
The spheres seemed to be of a higher tech level. The ship stopped on top of the Saddle pass between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea and on top of the US Army Base located there at Saddleroad. Altitude of the now thumbsized ship was an estimated 20-30000f.
It stood there hanging above both mountain peaks for ten minutes and then slowly progressed west and up. It was 1/4 the luminosity of the full moon and I could still see it well after sunrise. There are a lot of personnel up there.
There might be a lot of witnesses. Conjectures: Why was I shown this? Does ET monitor my internet? (Now Narcism off ;-) -Alien sightseeing of an activating volcano? Is this ship related to the flaming yellow and silver cylinder we seen a couple of days prior, flying South to North? Is this event related to the black sphere closely following a black cross which friends and I saw two years ago.300m away and 300m up Is this related to the silver sphere popping out of the water several years ago or the black dart followed by two F22 over Mauis valley? -Are ship and drones the same entity? -Ship and drones are two different alien factions? -Did I witness a battle between two alien factions? -Is the black banana ours? Did I witness a battle between ancient alien drones and a US-ship? -White spheres have been witnessed over the cities of Basel and Nuremberg in 1561 and 1566 .
battling crosses. ( I re-translated the old pamphlet correctly and its available on demand. -Is this a show of force? -An alien political statement? -If yes - Who was targeted to see this event? -Did the ship pickup personell? -Did the drones cause the flaming of the shield? -Did the drones force the ship up into the upper Strato- and Mesosphere? -At least 4 airport radars must have picked up the ship.
- Other options? Caveat: I study singularities and geodesics for 45 years. Am aero-space-engineering a partial spacelift which also solves our climate catastrophe. After seeing this display of drones interacting with the ships shield.
I might have an idea how those things work and my current equation is progressing and starts with V_s. I am still awed by what I've seen or was purposedly shown and I am analyzing the event as thoroughly as possible. Maybe a warp drive or partial warp drive is now a distinct near term possibility for humanity.
We truly live in most interesting times! Sincerest.
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Military chased it down seen in second video Unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Later that night red beam came through my sky light. I went outside and don’t remember anything after that.
Maybe I slept walk idk.
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Moving across the sky above pearl city hawaii Saw several ships in the sky moving and saw a cluster of electrical beings in my backyard and in house.
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Saw the crafts moving across sky. Saw electrical images inside the house and outside the house. Cluster of lights and shadows moving around house.
Saw the cluster of lights floating up towards the sky. They communicate telepathically and I hate hearing them. They always threaten me with their words and fowl language!!! Drained the car battery and the tv died.
Saw them doing experiment on my cat then she died and they laughed!.
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Meteor sized dot, north to south at similar speed of a meteor. Orange, bright dot. Almost as fine as a laser pointer.
Flew from due north to south very fast, similar to meteor speeds. There was no tail or debris coming apart. After covering 3/4 of my field of view.
it vanished. No bright breakups as most meteors display. Traveling much faster than ISS or other large satellite.
Hawaii UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 179 reported sightings | 26.92% of all reports |
Circle | 76 reported sightings | 11.43% of all reports |
Sphere | 52 reported sightings | 7.82% of all reports |
Fireball | 49 reported sightings | 7.37% of all reports |
Unknown | 46 reported sightings | 6.92% of all reports |
Triangle | 39 reported sightings | 5.86% of all reports |
Other | 36 reported sightings | 5.41% of all reports |
Disk | 30 reported sightings | 4.51% of all reports |
Oval | 23 reported sightings | 3.46% of all reports |
Formation | 22 reported sightings | 3.31% of all reports |
Flash | 18 reported sightings | 2.71% of all reports |
Changing | 15 reported sightings | 2.26% of all reports |
Rectangle | 11 reported sightings | 1.65% of all reports |
Cigar | 11 reported sightings | 1.65% of all reports |
Diamond | 9 reported sightings | 1.35% of all reports |
Cylinder | 8 reported sightings | 1.20% of all reports |
Egg | 7 reported sightings | 1.05% of all reports |
Chevron | 5 reported sightings | 0.75% of all reports |
Cone | 5 reported sightings | 0.75% of all reports |
Cross | 2 reported sightings | 0.30% of all reports |
Star | 2 reported sightings | 0.30% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 0.30% of all reports |
Hawaii UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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January | 75 reported sightings | 11.28% of all reports |
December | 73 reported sightings | 10.98% of all reports |
August | 71 reported sightings | 10.68% of all reports |
October | 60 reported sightings | 9.02% of all reports |
September | 58 reported sightings | 8.72% of all reports |
May | 55 reported sightings | 8.27% of all reports |
July | 55 reported sightings | 8.27% of all reports |
June | 49 reported sightings | 7.37% of all reports |
April | 46 reported sightings | 6.92% of all reports |
February | 43 reported sightings | 6.47% of all reports |
November | 41 reported sightings | 6.17% of all reports |
March | 31 reported sightings | 4.66% of all reports |
Hawaii UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 113 reported sightings | 16.99% of all reports |
Sunday | 102 reported sightings | 15.34% of all reports |
Friday | 95 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Monday | 89 reported sightings | 13.38% of all reports |
Tuesday | 88 reported sightings | 13.23% of all reports |
Wednesday | 85 reported sightings | 12.78% of all reports |
Thursday | 85 reported sightings | 12.78% of all reports |
Hawaii UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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05/20/14 | 8 reported sightings | 1.20% of all reports |
10/24/20 | 7 reported sightings | 1.05% of all reports |
11/12/19 | 5 reported sightings | 0.75% of all reports |
12/01/00 | 5 reported sightings | 0.75% of all reports |
09/23/14 | 4 reported sightings | 0.60% of all reports |
Hawaii UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 262 reported sightings | 39.40% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 151 reported sightings | 22.71% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 97 reported sightings | 14.59% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 81 reported sightings | 12.18% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 34 reported sightings | 5.11% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 32 reported sightings | 4.81% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Hawaii
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Hawaii.
Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Hawaii
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Hawaii