Auckland (New Zealand), New Zealand
Hovering and flying in angular positions and darting with lights and very birght lights over Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-29
- Where
- Auckland (New Zealand), New Zealand
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- -36.849, 174.763 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-auckland-new-zealand-2016-ace74b
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Auckland (New Zealand), New Zealand shows up 39 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from New Zealand in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 0.4% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.
Report
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