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N. C on 4/09/2024 3:43pm
Extremely bright flashes of yellow light occurring around gordington/whitikahu/tauhei areas between 2.50am and 3.30am 5/09/24. Likely happening for much longer than that. Struggling to figure out what has caused them as it’s a very clear night. Some of the flashes looked VERY close and some looked to be quite far away toward tahuna area.
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Garret on 2/09/2024 10:07am
Sky turned a vivid green turquoise to the SE for about 2 seconds and then again for another 2 seconds. It was during that storm south of Auckland at about 2am Sun morning 1st September. Lighting was lighting up the clouds in white light, this was eerily different, like 2 meteors came through behind the clouds.
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Emily on 2/09/2024 8:17am
Bright flash across the night sky looking east from Berwick in Otago about 7.55 then another when we were looking south east about ten minutes later.
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Jason Chamberlain on 4/09/2024 8:28am
It’s called wild fire caused by warm nor west winds static electricity in the air
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zac nixon on 29/08/2024 2:08am
Last night in queenstown around 2am seen bright flash thru curtain then heard a long rumbling. Wasn’t lightning
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Felicity Milburn on 28/08/2024 6:13pm
Big flash low in sky 6.08am looking to northwest in Christchurch.
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Kel on 28/08/2024 6:07pm
5.40am there were some pretty bright bursts of light in Broomfield,chch..anywhere from 20secs to several minutes apart -Have a camera rolling hoping to catch some footage.
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Jason Chamberlain on 4/09/2024 8:30am
It’s just static electricity from warm nor west winds it’s called wild fire.
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Alexa on 27/08/2024 7:37am
At around 7:20pm this evening, 27.8.24 we saw 4 strong localised/ stationary flashes. Not sheet lightening and not moving like a shooting star.
1 bright followed by 2 not so large and a 4th big and bright. Not equally timed apart but approx 10-20 seconds apart and not in exactly the same spot, as if moving from east to West slightly.
On Waiheke, facing East.
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Shar on 24/08/2024 9:33am
Tonight approx 9pm we saw a flash of fire and flames for a few seconds. This was in Muriwai, Auckland.
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