New Plymouth (New Zealand), New Zealand -Taranaki
First observed by Chubb security guard about 03.00 hovering in clouds of Mt.Egmont, later was observed by other Chubb guard (early morn
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-04-25
- Where
- New Plymouth (New Zealand), New Zealand -Taranaki
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- about 10 min
- Geo
- -39.067, 174.083 · fallback
- Slug
- oval-over-new-plymouth-new-zealand-2005-3ad555
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
- One of 1 documented reports from New Plymouth (New Zealand), New Zealand -Taranaki in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Zealand -Taranaki logged 1 sightings in 2005.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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