UFOMYST
CaseChevron2008

Lower Hutt (New Zealand), New Zealand

Orange lights above Hutt Valley

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-02-06
Where
Lower Hutt (New Zealand), New Zealand
Shape
Chevron
Duration
60 seconds
Geo
-41.217, 174.917 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-lower-hutt-new-zealand-2008-062240
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Lower Hutt (New Zealand), New Zealand in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Zealand logged 5 sightings in 2008.
  • Chevron sightings ran at 1.2% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.1%).

Report

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