CaseFireball2007

Timaru (New Zealand), New Zealand

the ufo was hoverig over a field on a friends farm. the ufo was like a fire ball with green lights flashing. after a while it flew aw

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-10-13
Where
Timaru (New Zealand), New Zealand
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10
Geo
-44.397, 171.254 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-timaru-new-zealand-2007-ffc7a2
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…

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Timaru (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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