CaseOval2007
Shannon (New Zealand), New Zealand
Object appeared in a photo but not spotted at the time.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-11-12
- Where
- Shannon (New Zealand), New Zealand
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Geo
- -40.548, 175.420 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-shannon-new-zealand-2007-1d07f8
Wave
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 shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from New Zealand in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.