Whangamata (New Zealand), New Zealand
MULTIPLE, DIFFERENT POSITION, COLOUR & SHAPE CHANGING ,ROTATING OBJECTS. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly not a serious report? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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.
- Duration parsed: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2006-11-12
- Where
- Whangamata (New Zealand), New Zealand
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 3 HRS
- Geo
- -37.200, 175.867 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-whangamata-new-zealand-2006-394c5e
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
- Whangamata (New Zealand), 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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