UFOMYST
CaseLight2005

Matauri Bay (New Zealand), New Zealand

Bright Orange lights seen over Matauri Bay, New Zealand. Multiple witnesses, Police and Marine radio both discussing.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (117 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-02-12
Where
Matauri Bay (New Zealand), New Zealand
Shape
Light
Duration
30min
Geo
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Slug
light-over-matauri-bay-new-zealand-2005-2bdac0
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Matauri Bay (New Zealand), New Zealand in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Zealand logged 10 sightings in 2005.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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