Tauranga (New Zealand), New Zealand
date: 5th May 2007 time: 7pm I have just seen a large flying object/ship/??? of some sort.I was driving home across the back road
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-05-07
- Where
- Tauranga (New Zealand), New Zealand
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- -37.686, 176.167 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-tauranga-new-zealand-2007-a67a58
Part of a wave
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
- One of 2 documented reports from Tauranga (New Zealand), New Zealand in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Zealand logged 8 sightings in 2007.
Report
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