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Meteors – Your Eyewitness Reports!

13/03/2025 8:00pm

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Justina harrison on 18/03/2025 4:23am

I saw it at about 10 pm a white glow with a tail disappearing after a min .it seemed towards the east coast- @ im in blenheim, 1st time iv seen one!

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Craig on 17/03/2025 10:37pm

At around 10pm 17th March 2025, I saw a bright green flare decent from the sky to the North of the Waimakariri Gorge, Oxford NZ.

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Katie Taylor on 17/03/2025 9:56pm

I saw also 9.38pm last night. Bright white ball flashed across the sky south east direction. I live near motueka. Very excited to see it.

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Shannon Irons on 17/03/2025 8:58am

About 10-15 mins ago so 9.40pm I saw a light fall from our view over the city which has green and red colour around it. I said to my husband ‘what the hell is that’ we live up on the hill in cashmere and I immediately thought plane or something falling from the sky! Then it just disappeared like disintegrated in the sky. Was very cool but also shocking! Not seen anything like it before.

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Mary on 17/03/2025 8:46am

Large white meteor sped infront of us heading to earth at approx 9.35 p. Never seen anything like it. My husband also saw it in reflection of window. Live in Nelson.

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Karen on 16/03/2025 8:55am

Fireball East of twizel tonight.

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James Morrell on 14/03/2025 4:26am

My story is much the same as what Tammie saw. I am in Taupo and was riding to work at 5.45am, seen a white line in the sky, east southeast sky, lasted around a minute then disappeared. Tried to photograph but didn’t come out.

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Tammie on 13/03/2025 4:50pm

5.45 am I’m driving from Waitarere Beach towards Levin and I see a trail of lights over the Tararuas. My first thought is a trail of satellite but they are very close together. Tried to take a picture but couldn’t, slowly the faded all within a minute.

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James Morrell on 14/03/2025 4:38am

Seen similar riding to work in Taupo around 5.45am, east southeast sky, initially thought satellites but looked more like a solid white line. Also tried to photograph but no luck.

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Mohammed Hanif on 13/03/2025 6:06am

At about 2256 hrs I saw a meteor size of car headlights from Frankton , Hamilton whilst facing east.

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