Maybe. On my phone, it does not appear to match any commercially available LED kite that I know about... but people can always put their own LEDs on a regular-old kite.
I'll look at it in a bigger screen later this evening.
Looking at it, I can see it as a delta kite with LEDs attached (likely by the flier rather then commercially) at the nose, wing tips and back towards the tail attachment point or tip of the keel.
Something like this. lights indicated by red dots.
This pic is similar to the attitude I think I'm seeing, but deltas come in an array of aspect ratios (wingtip-to-wingtip width vs. to nose-to-tail length) and the kite (if it is one) could be pointing another way.
Note that deltas are usually decent fliers in lighter winds, and lighter winds are common at night. So deltas are a common choice for night flying.
There are other ways to attach lights to points on other styles of kite and give something like the appearance in the video, but if it is a kite my bet would be a delta.
That said, from what I can see the video is consistent with the UFO being a kite, but I don't see anything proving that's what it is. I'd go as far as "likely," I guess.
Some further thoughts reacting to the witness report:
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A witness in Hawaii observed a bright orange light in the sky around 10:30 p.m. after returning from a late-night event. The object hovered, changed from orange to bright white, made rapid vertical movements,
A kite with LEDs is consistent with all of that. Deltas are sometimes active fliers, tough well designed/made ones can be rock-steady in good winds, lots of "not quite so well designed/made ones" are on the market and are more active, especially if the center of mass is "off" after adding the weight of lights/battery(s).
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and released cloud like exhausts that formed three or more individual lights.
That sounds like the blurry orb created by the camera being out of focus resolving into individual lights as focus locks on. One could rig a kite to release smoke, but that seems less likely.
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These smaller lights appeared to take on various shapes and moved independently around the main object, often descending towards the ocean.
Lights that flashed and blinked could give the illusion of lights moving around, or if the kite was not flying well it could seem lights were moving around the kite if it yawed about. The entire kite could descend towards the ocean, recover, and go back up, but I don't see a practical way for individual lights to do that, other than by falling off the kite into the ocean, in which case they'd not come back up!
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The witness and a friend watched the display for about two hours as the lights maneuvered silently, at times approaching very close to them. The activity continued past midnight, before eventually disappearing later in the night.
This is consistent with kites that are flying actively. Not sure what "at times approaching very close to them" means(nor how accurate a description it is) but a kite that loses altitude may come closer to observers on the ground, and fliears can move closer or further from the viewer. It is frustrating how few videos of UFOs include the moment when they "disappear." That would tell us something (which may be why it is seldom included!) In this case, kites could disappear by the battery(s) dying after a few hours, by the kite being pulled down to the flier, or by the flier moving away.
