Tirau, New Zealand
A bright light that became larger & then again receded becoming smaller until it vanished - duration was probably just over 5 minutes
Report quality: Moderate49/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-02-20
- Where
- Tirau, New Zealand
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 5 plus minutes
- Geo
- -37.983, 175.750 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-tirau-2006-bfba0e
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Tirau, New Zealand has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 7 reports from New Zealand.
- The 2000s skewed 2.8% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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