Auckland (New Zealand), New Zealand
A light in the sky over Auckland ,New Zealand. Changing direction from left to right at 45 degree angles. Quite stunning to watch
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-18
- Where
- Auckland (New Zealand), New Zealand
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- -36.849, 174.763 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-auckland-new-zealand-2009-3c4853
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
- Auckland (New Zealand), New Zealand shows up 39 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from New Zealand in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.