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Sandra on 29/04/2025 8:01am
25th April 2025 around 8 -9pm Blenheim, saw very bright fast falling light with tail and flash
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BJ on 27/04/2025 10:11pm
Saw what looked like a sizeable meteor from Top of the South NZ. between approx 7 and 7.30pm 27th April. 2025. South west from our home.
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Aleisha on 27/04/2025 7:33pm
Seen looking towards Banks Peninsula from Rangiora North Canterbury a bright orange light falling almost vertically, seen at around 6:56pm last night 26/04/25
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Char Laws on 27/04/2025 7:07pm
Morena. I saw bright golden sparks. Just a flash. Like the tail end of a sparkler. It devided in to two It was very fast just a flash .
What did I see
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Greg on 27/04/2025 10:01am
At 7pm I saw a bright flash streak across the sky from East to West burn out into deep red colour. I’m in Anderson’s Bay Dunedin. I was in the phone and gasped it was that spectacular!
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Marcel on 26/04/2025 12:31am
Feel pretty sure I just seem a meteor fly over north canterbury 10 minutes ago heading west
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James on 25/04/2025 8:29am
Saw a quick streak west to east from top of the hill in Karori
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Amber ferguson on 25/04/2025 8:21am
Meteor seen from Masterton at 8.15pm going west to east to the coast. Bright orange to yellow to green and then red.
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Joshua on 23/04/2025 9:52am
From Leamington last night (22.04.25) at approximately 9:45pm I saw what I believe might have been a meteor that was travelling in a South by South-West direction. It seemed very nearby, as if it went over the countryside between Leamington and Karapiro. I watched it only for a few seconds as it passed by my window. It appeared as a ball of white and very bright light, moving fast and pulsating before it quickly fizzled and disappeared in a trail of red and orange fragments.
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Irene on 23/04/2025 8:40am
Sitting in the spa 8.30pm Horowhenua area, a large fireball streaked across the sky in a northern direction. Lasted a good portion of the sky and could see the tail behind it.
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