UFOMYST
CaseFireball2007

New Zealand, New Zealand

domed ufo in fireball spotted over New Zealand

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-08-07
Where
New Zealand, New Zealand
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 -20 SECS
Geo
52.923, -1.505 · fallback
Slug
fireball-over-new-zealand-2007-857a4e
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 8 reports logged in New Zealand, New Zealand.
  • This case is one of 8 New Zealand reports filed in 2007.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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