Whakatane (New Zealand), New Zealand
Hi I decided to get out of Auckland City for a while,so me and my girlfriend went for a drive,so we decided to go to Whatatane,its a sm
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: 1350s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-10-13
- Where
- Whakatane (New Zealand), New Zealand
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15-30min
- Geo
- -37.959, 176.985 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-whakatane-new-zealand-2009-e4e2d4
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
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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 1 reports logged in Whakatane (New Zealand), New Zealand.
- This case is one of 8 New Zealand reports filed in 2009.
- Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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