UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop1997

Wairoa (New Zealand), New Zealand

Green craft with a red tail, heading west to east towards the sea.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-05
Where
Wairoa (New Zealand), New Zealand
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
0.5 min
Geo
-39.038, 177.420 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-wairoa-new-zealand-1997-212f00
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Wairoa (New Zealand), New Zealand.
  • This case is one of 2 New Zealand reports filed in 1997.
  • Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 1990s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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