Other Flying · Maui, Hawaii · 2018
HI-2018ID case-df62cbf827Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- 2018to the year
- Where
- Maui, Hawaiito approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator's father reports seeing a large, glowing, winged creature with dragon-like and bird-like features flying from the mountains toward the ocean.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Maui, Maui County, Hawaii, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 2018
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-df62cbf827
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Source trail (1)
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- What did my father see?
Reddit · 2025-06-06
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Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.