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Anna on 15/01/2025 9:51am
Heaps of fast moving meteors or cometsseen with naked eye in Wellington from 10.30pm. All in the milky way and different speeds with a larger bright comet in the middle of the shower of whatever they were! Also pretty sure we could see Jupiter, Saturn and Mars lined up below the huge orange moon!
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Geoff Wood on 16/01/2025 2:48am
I saw this too. Coming from the north at about 35 degrees elevation near Jupiter. Very bright (like a plane landing light) and no tail – must have been coming straight towards me. Looked away briefly , then it had gone. Lasted max 15 seconds.
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John on 15/01/2025 2:34am
Spotted what looked like a jet stream in the sky over Wellington yesterday around 3pm. Flight radar showed no jets in the area and it was a strange path across the Wellington runway west to east. Might have been an aircraft, but looked more like a downward path across the sky than a stable jet cruising altitude. Took a few photos / video.
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Julie on 12/01/2025 7:44am
Hi at approx 3.19am 12/1/25 from Wyuna Bay Coro was looking East toward the hills and saw a flash of red/orange light at first thought maybe fire at Kuaotunu bout a minute later saw another flash which was white. Then again just over a min later saw another flash of light and again a redish light.
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Malia on 11/01/2025 11:19pm
Was at a bonfire in hahei beach last night and saw a big ish firey ball quickly fall through the sky, it was about the size of a half moon, no one else saw it, it would’ve been around 1am
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Johnnie on 11/01/2025 5:08pm
Was driving on SH2 around 330am between ngatea and mangatarata and saw a flash that lit up the sky facing north, it wasn’t lightning, was really quick, and was white, very strange.
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Jen on 11/01/2025 5:39am
Driving towards Halswell on sparks rd Chch I saw a red fiery thing descending rapidly above Halswell at 5.42pm today. It was trailing spiraling smoke and disappeared from view
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Mark on 9/01/2025 9:05am
Saw a long streak accross the sky south to north near Paraparaumu about 9 45 pm
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