Upper Hutt (New Zealand), New Zealand
Witnesses in Upper Hutt, New Zealand, reportedly thousands of people, described a circular object hanging silently above the town for about two and a half hours in 1973.
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: 9000s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (169 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-03-01
- Where
- Upper Hutt (New Zealand), New Zealand
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2.5 Hours
- Geo
- -41.138, 175.050 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-upper-hutt-new-zealand-1973-c66820
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- Upper Hutt (New Zealand), New Zealand shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from New Zealand in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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