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Steve on 30/03/2025 10:29pm
North Canterbury, Rangiora.
Approximately 07.45.
Blue meterorite/ball shooting across the sky, green trail, very quick.
I’d say from North to South (ish) and visibility was hazy so must have been pretty bright.
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Barb Gaeth on 30/03/2025 7:30pm
Saw a blue flash around 7.50am this morning 31.3.25 over Birdlings Flat Banks Peninsula Canterbury New Zealand
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Gerhard on 31/03/2025 5:55am
Yep, I saw the same blue flash heading out of Diamond Harbour. It broke up into several pieces then faded.
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Helen on 30/03/2025 7:03pm
Re my above sighting i forgot to provide location which is Christchurch
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Helen on 30/03/2025 6:58pm
Sitting outside around 7.35am and saw an extremely fast small glowing blue green object streak across the sky for what looked like a short distance and then disappear. It lasted less than 2 seconds. Not enough time to grab my phone. Was very excited to see this!
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Vanessa Trowell on 28/03/2025 10:34pm
Saw a fire ball , good size. over tauranga, 3am Saturday morning. Very bright.
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Jesse hayward on 28/03/2025 4:18pm
I just seen the flash in the sky twice while getting my cows just now in rotoorangi cambridge was pretty cool to see
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Richard on 27/03/2025 5:46pm
I saw a meteorite steak behind the centre of Rangitoto at 5:43am this morning Friday 28th March, 2025. I was halfway between Achilles Point and Browns Island on my kayak.
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Fraser on 28/03/2025 12:35am
We saw a meteor same time looking north from Kauri, Whangarei. It was going west to east. Very exciting to see.
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