UFOMYST
CaseFireball2004

Hastings (New Zealand), New Zealand

Yellow gold starlike object slowly rising in the western sky

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (60 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-12-31
Where
Hastings (New Zealand), New Zealand
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 min
Geo
-39.638, 176.849 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-hastings-new-zealand-2004-fb4429
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

  • Hastings (New Zealand), New Zealand shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 14 reports came from New Zealand in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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