Hokitika Airport is not in Greymouth. 

Not even the photographer noticed this apparent apparition at the time, so who are the other ‘baffled observers’?

The scientific name for the weather phenomenon referred to as ‘phantom suns’ (aka sun-dogs), is parhelia (plural of parhelion) – not ‘perihelion’.

Y assumption is these are light reflections. The ohotograoher said she didnt notice them in the sky,vtook a photo and wala. Has,to be reflections, unless she could see them outside with no camera, just eyes. 

Looks to be taken from up high… not from ground level. So id say yeah, he was inside and its a reflection of the inside lights against the glass. Unless of course he was standing on the roof outside.. 

They are my fellow aliens trying to find me

I have photos like this but it is due to my lights on inside reflecting off the window 🙂

Would it be possible to show more than one photo?  Did the photographer/staff member take photos from different positions?  It would then be interesting to see if the spots are in the same position in the sky or not.

If they were flying (UFO) discs, the reflection of the lighter part would be on the other side (inside tube vs. outside disc). We can see the inside of a tube (ceiling light) with a thin lighter stripe marking where the actual ceiling or end of the tubular shape is.

Name and shame the airport staff member.

Looks like reflection of indoor lights if taken through glass window. I’ve managed to get similar effects photographing through train window.

To me.. this looks like a light reflection from window/s  from either inside a building  it is possible to happen even if one stands outside and some distance away from the building window.. We had a similair case  in Auckland standing at chelsea wharf  ( on the MV Union Auckland at the time) taking a photo across the sea and altough we was some distance from the main cheslea building and windows we had similar occurance on our photos.. this look pretty much the same thing.

Photo too small.

Hard to tell but reminds me of the huge circular light in the clouds above Moscow a few years back, “official” explanation was it was unusual clouds – utter rubbish was my opinion.