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Lina on 17/11/2025 11:38pm
My husband and I saw a falling star or a meteorite last night. We are based in blockhouse bay. I checked the blockhouse bay pages on facebook to see if anyone else in the area saw it too..but I havent found anything yet. It was a beautiful sight.
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Paris on 17/11/2025 10:06am
just saw a green meteor shoot across the sky around 22:30. so bright and turned from a green light to a bright yellow/red light and split.
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Chelsea on 14/11/2025 10:44am
Just saw a green meteor falling towards the west at around 22:13. Was incredibly beautiful
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Jeanna Rodgers on 14/11/2025 10:04am
Tonight (fri 14th Nov), around 10:30pm we watched a large bright object travel across the sky in a west to east direction.
We were in Southland travelling from Gore back to Lumsden.
It moved like a shooting star but went more across the sky rather than straight down and the light didn’t dim. Unfortunately hedges got in the way of our view just as it appeared to split into two. Probably took a couple of seconds as we watched its path.
Very interested to know what it might have been.
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Robbie on 31/10/2025 8:59am
Think may have seen a meteorite fly past saw it from our window and dashed outside to get a better look at it..we sit high on a hill so awesome view of whatever it was… tonight was between 9.30 9.40pm big Golden Ball flying across the night sky too fast for plane or helicopter… it went past and got smaller and disappeared.. Whangarei NZ 31st October 2025
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Dawn Wood on 30/10/2025 9:46am
In Motueka last night 2910 we saw the same meteor. It seemed very bright and low in the sky travelling from east to west. It seemed to last for ages. Never seen one moving so slow and lasting as long. Was pretty cool
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Denise on 29/10/2025 9:48am
10.46pm over Hawera large sparkly ball, flyng very fast across sky above me. Wow!
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Johannes Viljoen on 29/10/2025 8:51am
Just saw a meteor from Upper Hutt out to the NW streaking south at circa 10 degrees decline – almost horizontal. Never seen a trajectory that shallow before!
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