Darfield (New Zealand), New Zealand
2 large reddish orange balls of light moving across the Canterbury Plains.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 80s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-03-23
- Where
- Darfield (New Zealand), New Zealand
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 80 seconds
- Geo
- -43.483, 172.117 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-darfield-new-zealand-2014-52e370
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
- Darfield (New Zealand), New Zealand has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 6 reports from New Zealand.
- The 2010s skewed 0.7% egg reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Report
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