Shannon (New Zealand), New Zealand
Bright light (definitely NOT the ISS) observed shortly before a flyover by the ISS
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-02-26
- Where
- Shannon (New Zealand), New Zealand
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- <1 minute
- Geo
- -40.548, 175.420 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-shannon-new-zealand-2017-3f4ec7
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
- Shannon (New Zealand), New Zealand has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 6 reports from New Zealand.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure 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.