Mysterious Green Lights Over Hawaii Baffle Scientists in Sunset Sky (Video)

“The first night I was recording,” said Jake Asuncion, who filmed the video. “I got home and I was going to post it. Then, in the video, I saw the green come out. I was like, ‘what was that?’ So, I posted it. I couldn’t figure out what it was.”

He even went back the following night to see if he could capture it again.

“So, I went back the next night to see if I could capture the same thing,” Asuncion said. “And it came out even more the second night.”

The videos were taken between 7:15pm and 7:18pm, facing northwest towards Maui.

And without the camera, only using the human eye, the green lights appeared very faint. They would show up right after the sun had set. But on camera, they shined brightly.

“It looks very interesting,” said astronomer and owner Stargazers of Hawaii. “The green color looks like aurora, but honestly, I’ve never really seen aurora. We don’t really get that in Hawaii, especially that green color.”

There were no major geomagnetic storms, or conditions similar, to create the aurora borealis (or Northern Lights) in Hawaii when the videos were taken.

Many in the comments section suggested that it was related to a comet, specifically Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS), a “a bright, non-periodic, hyperbolic comet discovered in September 2025 that reached its closest point to the sun on April 19, 2026, and is passing closest to Earth around April 26-27, 2026.”

Or, just maybe, aliens?