CaseSphere2014

Auckland (New Zealand), New Zealand

I was walking home when I saw a red glowing light flying overhead. I watched it for a about 30 seconds before it flickered off and reve

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-04-11
Where
Auckland (New Zealand), New Zealand
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 minutes
Geo
-36.849, 174.763 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-auckland-new-zealand-2014-e4b5b5
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • This is one of 39 reports logged in Auckland (New Zealand), New Zealand.
  • This case is one of 6 New Zealand reports filed in 2014.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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