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Ashley on 1/09/2025 3:41pm
Fire ball seen over te puna, tauranga. New zealand. 3.39am looking from te puna rugby club, across the field towards Bethlehem.
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Michaela on 26/08/2025 10:31am
Between 6pm and 7.30 looking eastwards I saw a white light falling from the sky, very quickly, it was fading as it was falling, with a bit of a tale, Hamilton , west
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Saul Ross on 26/08/2025 9:19am
Bright orange fireball spotted between 7:30pm-8pm Monday 25/08/25 at Kaka Point camp site Caitlin’s South Island New Zealand traveling south west.
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Nathan on 25/08/2025 12:37am
5.55 am this morning huge bright orange streak running from south to north …very impressive…25 km south west of rotorua
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Yvonne Lane on 17/08/2025 6:28pm
At approximately 9-30pm last night large bright blue/yellow round object whizzing through sky in Springvale Wanganui went down over Westmere. Thought it was a falling star but too bright and big for that.
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Jake on 15/08/2025 9:33pm
Large white meteor with a long red tail, roughly in the northern direction and heading from my right to my my left passed over New Plymouth fairly high in the sky at 7pm. Close to town, but still very bright even through the light pollution.
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Garry on 15/08/2025 11:40pm
Saw meteorite from Inglewood last night travelling East to West. Long white tail. A bit of red where it was breaking up. Appeared to be over New Plymouth.
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Gesse Ripaki on 12/08/2025 5:30pm
Meteor with long tail seen east of Kihikihi at 3.45am Wednesday 13th August 2025
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Vicki Bishop on 9/08/2025 8:50am
Meteor seen at 8:40pm Saturday 9th August 2025 over Riverhead Forest
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Laura on 9/08/2025 8:29am
At approx 7:59pm 9th August, I saw a bright yellow/white light streak across the sky in heading west, quite low down.
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