CaseRectangle2002
Christchurch (New Zealand), New Zealand
orange light over christchurch
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (30 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-21
- Where
- Christchurch (New Zealand), New Zealand
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 5 mins
- Geo
- -43.533, 172.633 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-christchurch-new-zealand-2002-dd20d9
In context
- Christchurch (New Zealand), New Zealand shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 14 reports came from New Zealand in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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