UFO sightings on the rise

[TomK]

Back when I regularly worked at the summit during the night, we regularly got calls from Big Island residents reporting strange lights in the sky. Nearly all of them were due to Venus, the occasional one was due to the moon and one involved a Chinese lantern that set fire to a tree in Hilo. The calls became less over the years but started rising again after the CFHT made their skycam publicly available on the internet. Nearly all the calls after that were people reporting Venus or the moon rising and a number included aircraft either landing or taking off from Hilo airport. I believe some of those reports were also made on Punaweb but haven't got the energy to find them now.