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Sam on 8/09/2025 12:33am
Saw what I think to be a meteor traveling very fast over Hamilton at 11.31am today. Too fast for a plane/jet and was giving off a wide white trail headed north-ish.
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Sista on 8/09/2025 4:00am
I think i captured that. I uploaded it to my tik tok acc sista_souljah_nz
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Neil Brewer on 4/09/2025 10:00pm
Saw a large meteorite travel ,flash and explode with noise at 10.55pm 4/9/2025 .It was travelling about NNW from South .I was in Clyde.
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Paul Langley on 4/09/2025 3:12pm
A massive meteor with fire trail over Dunedin heading in a NNW direction at approx 11.30pm 4th September 2025
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Josh on 4/09/2025 10:15am
Looking up/eastward from Chch, Orange object darted across sky , then slowed down and dissappeared at aprox 22:04 ish. 4/09/25
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Helen on 4/09/2025 9:02am
Saw an orange fireball? with long tail travel across the sky for about 8 seconds, travelling northwards at 7.50pm Tuesday 2nd September, Whakatane,, Very impressive.
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Ashley on 1/09/2025 3:41pm
Fire ball seen over te puna, tauranga. New zealand. 3.39am looking from te puna rugby club, across the field towards Bethlehem.
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Michaela on 26/08/2025 10:31am
Between 6pm and 7.30 looking eastwards I saw a white light falling from the sky, very quickly, it was fading as it was falling, with a bit of a tale, Hamilton , west
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Saul Ross on 26/08/2025 9:19am
Bright orange fireball spotted between 7:30pm-8pm Monday 25/08/25 at Kaka Point camp site Caitlin’s South Island New Zealand traveling south west.
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