UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2008

Napier (New Zealand), New Zealand

Black Triangles

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (15 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-02-25
Where
Napier (New Zealand), New Zealand
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 - 15 minutes
Geo
-39.493, 176.912 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-napier-new-zealand-2008-c512af
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Napier (New Zealand), New Zealand has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 5 reports from New Zealand.
  • The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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