UFOMYST
CaseLight1978

Kaikoura (New Zealand), New Zealand

Pulsating light in the sky

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (26 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-12-15
Where
Kaikoura (New Zealand), New Zealand
Shape
Light
Duration
10-20 seconds
Geo
-42.417, 173.683 · exact
Slug
light-over-kaikoura-new-zealand-1978-3431b6
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Kaikoura (New Zealand), New Zealand in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Zealand logged 3 sightings in 1978.
  • Light sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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