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
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
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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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