State Report
UFO Sightings in Hawaii
1,038 sightings on record from 1960 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
1,038
Share of US total
0.48%
Peak year
2013
101 reports
Top shape
Light
262 reports
Years active
63
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-21 | Ewa Beach | unknown | — | Objects in pics not seen during photography. Noticed next morning when reviewing. |
| 2023-09-13 | Wailuku | circle | A few minutes | I was at the beach fishing |
| 2023-07-29 | Honolulu | star | 10 seconds | High altitude white star moves across the sky and vanishes |
| 2023-07-14 | Kailua Kona | sphere | 3 to 4 seconds | Dark sphere crossed highway ahead of me, turned right and quickly disappeared |
| 2023-06-18 | Oahu | changing | 4-6 minutes | Two very bright lights. Circled shape at first, but changed. Extremely fast, as if their chasing one another. Disappears... |
| 2023-04-06 | Pearl Harbor | unknown | Seconds | Watching fireworks, something hovers and Flys. |
| 2023-04-01 | Honolulu | unknown | 2-3mins | While standing on the Waikiki walkway which extends onto water around after sundown we saw 5 blue orbs. |
| 2023-01-23 | Kailua | egg | N/A | Unexpected red ( reflecting voggy atmosphere) object in photo |
| 2023-01-11 | HONOLULU | sphere | 3 minutes | A brilliant small circle of light, high in the sky, no sound, travelled from the South Shore near Honolulu to the... |
| 2023-01-01 | Poi pu | circle | 1 min | Saw UFO after taking photo of the sunset |
| 2023-01-01 | Waialua | formation | 5 minutes | Numerous greenish twinkling stars in a swarm slowing drifting over ocean. |
| 2022-10-09 | HILO | formation | 30 minutes | Mothership, shield and orbiting streaky and white spheres |
| 2022-09-16 | Pearl city | cylinder | Thirty minutes | Moving across the sky above pearl city hawaii |
| 2022-09-09 | Pearl City | star | Several minutes and years | Saw the crafts moving across sky. |
| 2022-08-05 | Honolulu | circle | 4 seconds | Meteor sized dot, north to south at similar speed of a meteor. |
| 2022-07-02 | Honolulu | disk | 1-2 minutes | Was a disk shape with a blue ring on the center with a metal gray looking color around the rest |
| 2022-06-22 | Maui | oval | 10-30 minutes | Glowing green light hovering over the ocean during day time |
| 2022-06-14 | Pua’ena Point Beach Park | diamond | — | We were on a beach in Hawaii taking photos and this image appeared on my camera for a split second and was gone |
| 2022-05-26 | Kailua | cylinder | 30 seconds | Driving on H1, passenger saw a light in the sky, pulled over and all three people got out and noticed a second light. 30... |
| 2022-04-21 | Kihei | disk | 10 tp 15 minutes | A orange diamond shape caught my eye and I pulled over to film, I then noticed it changed to disk shape. Another on... |