Auckland (New Zealand), New Zealand
We were driving to view a house festooned with Christmas Lights in West Auckland on Christmas Eve around 9pm. As I proceeded from the
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-12-24
- Where
- Auckland (New Zealand), New Zealand
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- Forty minutes
- Geo
- -36.849, 174.763 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-auckland-new-zealand-2009-f7e967
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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
- Auckland (New Zealand), New Zealand has 39 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 8 reports from New Zealand.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
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