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Hannah on 11/05/2025 8:50am
Just after ten pm – may 4th – driving back from Puhoi I saw a orange/yellow meteorite with sparks in the sky…low…quite huge for about 5 seconds and it disappeared
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Annabel Duncan on 10/05/2025 8:32am
Saw a meteor or shooting star from lower moutere. It was travelling north to south. Approx 8.20pm 10 May 25
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Sam on 11/05/2025 1:01am
We also seen this from ashhurst ( Palmerston North )
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Donna Hoff on 6/05/2025 10:31pm
Tuesday 6th May, I got up at 3am made a nice coffee, crumpets with golden syrup on and sat in the spa to watch. Between 3.40 and 4.10am I saw 3 meteorites. One a white zoom, long tail, the 2nd like nothing I’d seen before, star like with 3 tails off the star
spike (only my description ) spectacular and a 3rd long arcing with a subtle rainbow tail. Fantastic!
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R La Roche on 5/05/2025 5:02am
May 4th about 10pm I saw a fireball meteorite bright orange red with a tail of orange, red and yellow sparks. I watched it for about 6 seconds heading north to south near Patumahoe. It was incredible.
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Arthur on 4/05/2025 11:23pm
I saw a meteorite last night at approx 2210hrs, bright orange color long tail , quite low and not super fast, spotted west auckland area, did anyone else see it ,amazing sight
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Luc on 4/05/2025 10:15am
Saw something at around 10:04 PM may 4th looked like a fireball or meteor quite bright along the south-western sky of Auckland.
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Braden McGregor on 4/05/2025 10:12am
At 10.05 PM On Sunday the 4th of may I saw a comet disintegrate from the north shore of Auckland. It looked like is was going SW but was hard to tell from my position.
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Viv on 4/05/2025 10:12am
10.05pm at Piha -I saw a shooting star or a meteor coming from the sw to the ne-quite large and unmistakable-did any one else see it?
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Robert Holdsworth on 10/05/2025 7:52am
A so called shooting star is.the same thing as a meteor.
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