CaseRectangle2003
Napier (New Zealand), New Zealand
8-9 craft moving at top speed
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (29 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-12-18
- Where
- Napier (New Zealand), New Zealand
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- -39.493, 176.912 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-napier-new-zealand-2003-ff7973
In context
- This is one of 8 reports logged in Napier (New Zealand), New Zealand.
- This case is one of 12 New Zealand reports filed in 2003.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
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.