Wellington (New Zealand), New Zealand
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Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-06-22
- Where
- Wellington (New Zealand), New Zealand
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- -41.287, 174.776 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-wellington-new-zealand-2005-7122f5
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
- Wellington (New Zealand), New Zealand has 12 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 10 reports from New Zealand.
- The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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