UFO tonight!

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Now we're talking, UFOs!

US Pacific Air Forces responded with three F-22s to an incident reported off Hawaii on Sunday afternoon.
The military said it could not provide details on the incident, but did confirm it was not a training exercise and was done in response to an FAA request.
Two F-22 Raptors took off from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam at about 4 p.m. Sunday. A third F-22 then took off about an hour later.

Hawaii News Now reached out to federal authorities and are waiting for additional details on what prompted the response.

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/06/14...ff-hawaii/

[randomq]

Drug smugglers, rogue drones, foreign military, aliens, interdimensional manifestations? What an exciting time to be playing this simulation!

[terracore]

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/06/1...st-of-faa/

Officials today would not disclose why three missile-armed Hawaii Air National Guard F-22 fighters were scrambled Sunday afternoon for an “irregular air patrol” requested by the Federal Aviation Administration.

“The 154th Fighter Wing launched two F-22 Raptors from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam at approximately 4 p.m.,” Pacific Air Forces said in an email. “A third was launched at approximately 5 p.m.”

The Hickam-based Air Force command added that the FAA requested that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command “conduct an irregular air patrol and the situation resolved, prompting the fighters and a KC-135 Stratotanker (a refueling plane) to return to base. We cannot discuss further specifics of the situation.”

Indo-Pacific Command at Camp H.M. Smith referred questions about the incident to its subordinate Pacific Air Forces command.

The FAA was equally cryptic: “We have a close working relationship with the military,” spokesman Ian Gregor said in an email in response to a query asking why the military jets were requested.

In 2017, two armed F-22s were scrambled from Hickam to escort an American Airlines flight bound for Honolulu after a 25-year-old Turkish national opened a restricted door leading to the airfield ramp in Los Angeles and was arrested, but later was allowed to board the flight to Honolulu, officials said at the time.

A few hours into the flight, passengers told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the man was restrained by a flight attendant and passengers as he tried to rush into the first-class section with a blanket over his head.

In Honolulu, the man was handcuffed and escorted off by FBI agents.

The Air Force has F-22s, pilots, maintainers and weapons crews on call 24 hours a day at Hickam to respond to air threats to the Hawaiian islands as part of an air defense alert mission.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

A dramatic rendering of the possible encounter:

[TomK]

In case anyone is still unaware, the Hickham F-22s took off due to a large Russian naval and air exercise that's taking place a few hundred miles from Hawaii.

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/06/1...port-says/

[TomK]

Just curious, but did you see another balloon this evening? There was a bright light, unmoving, several degrees to the left and above the sun which had already set below Mauna Kea.

I've not seen a response to this yet, but can't help thinking this was Venus and not a large NASA balloon.