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KHON2 Honolulu -- UFO's seen over South Shore sky

POSTED WITH PERMISSION FROM KHON2.Two trails of mysterious lights are seen circling in the southwest sky Friday evening.It's hard to draw a surfer's attention away from the next wave, but whatever was in the southwest sky Friday evening around 6:20 p.m. drew a crowd along Kewalo Basin and Ala Moana Beach Park. Honolulu resident Peter Hollingworth described what he and many others saw as two lights circling in the sky, about 45 degrees above the horizon.Video of one of the lights was recorded from the KHON 2 SkyCam. "These two little fireballs with a stream behind it," said Hollingworth. "Looked kind of like a shooting star but it just kept going. They changed directions a few times, at first it was coming in then it turned, then it went out then it came back in again." Hollingworth was surfing with his 12 year old son when the unexpected show began. "I was a little concerned. I told him come over and sit with me - this might be the last surf session we ever have together because this thing's coming straight for Honolulu. It looked deadly to me it was kind of spooky."So what was it? The National Weather Service says nothing showed up on their radar at the time of the sighting and the Federal Aviation Administration didn't report anything unusual.The U.S. military conducted a missile defense test off of Kauai Friday evening but the test didn't begin until 7:20 p.m."This in a sense is an unidentified flying object," said University of Hawaii astronomy professor Gareth Wynn-Williams. "It's something in the sky that's moving that we haven't identified." Wynn-Williams believes there's a simple explanation behind the UFO's. "It's probably a contrail of some kind," he said while watching video of one of the lights at his Kailua home. The professor says contrails are caused by high flying airplanes burning hydrogen based fuels. One of the byproducts of the fuel exhaust is water. "The air is very cold so the water condenses and forms like drops very quickly and then these drops stay behind the plane until eventually they warm up and they evaporate." Wynn-Williams doubts little green men from Mars are behind the UFO's. "Some people just think differently than scientists and they like to look for the fanciest most exciting explanation. Those people would like to think it's little green men, I think that's very unlikely." According to published reports this is not the first time a UFO has grabbed the attention of Hawaii residents.In December of 2004 an unexplained streak of light was captured by a camera on Haleakala on Maui moving southwest to northeast. No official explanation has been given for that UFO sighting either.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am
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Video Comments

AweSomo84 (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)

chemtrail, all the particals sprayed in the sky lighted up trough the sun

gardenalien (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)

You know something, it is obvious the science guy is giving a skeptical view of the incident. He has to protect his career, maybe has a family, mortgage to pay etc etc. Until all governments around the world through the UN admits that UFOs are real, scientist will not take the subject seriously.

2008805 (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)

Meteors come down...that went up.

derfsanderson (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)

Thats def one of ours probably on its way to Afghanistan or Iraq or on the way back. Or recon over china or n korea.

chedwiggins (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)

0:42 looks like the contrail from an aircraft in straight flight and 1:04 looks like the contrail of an aircraft changing its heading. "That's too wide and short to be a contrail." I don't think so. I've witnessed first hand very short contrails and very wide contrails.The expert witness scientist could have been a little less condescending. "Some people just think differently than scientists..." What? By asking questions? Sounds like prelude to hypothesis of scientific method to me. :]

Groovy4455 (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)

Maybe some kind of meteor..?

SoloPilot6 (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)

Sorry, but it is clearly a contrail. Aircraft flying just above the altitude where contrails begin to form will "pull a con" which dissipates rapidly. And since they are still fairly low, they appear to be traveling more quickly than normal.This is most likely a military plane, possibly a fighter, using a fuel formulated to reduce condensation trails. As a single-seater pilot myself, I see nothing in that video that looks unusual.

arwenx2a (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)

Hey , funny enough I live on the top of Ward ave. but , I found another video of the same exact " Light "its called " fire in the sky " posted by someone named calibre83. Just thought ya might wanna check it out.

laboo69 (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)

The prof's "contrail" explanation is lame. That's too wide and short to be a contrail. South Shore surfers see airplanes and contrails all the time since HNL airport is just a few miles away. Think we don't know the difference? Whereas, the astronomer probably never sees them except under a full moon -- because he works at night.

FuuxxSensei (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)

OMG!!!!i never seen this in the news man