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Daryll on 28/03/2020 8:15am
My wife saw large round star like with a triangular tail coming out the back. I saw it travel like a large comet with single tail n disappeared to the south west of Dunedin. My wife saw it for a period of about 20 – 30 seconds. I saw it for about 10 seconds.
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Peter on 24/03/2020 11:03pm
Last night at about 8pm in Hokitika I saw a dark plume over the sea just appear in the sky travelling very quickly. I watched it through my binoculars and it did not appear to be a jet: it was travelling too quickly! It also appeared to be heading downwards. Did anyone else see it and any ideas as to what it was?
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Milania on 23/03/2020 11:07pm
hi, I saw a line of about 50 which looked like shooting stars or stars moving down toward earth.i was with my family and it was about 8:30 or something and we were at nelson Bay Australia 20.3.20. If you could get back to me of what it was I would be very happy as I am very intrigued by what it could have been.
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Duncan Steel on 26/03/2020 11:46pm
Very likely you saw the new chain of Starlink (SpaceX) satellites.
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Milania on 23/03/2020 10:59pm
There was a line of which looked like stars going down around 8:30ish at Nelson Bay Australia. If you could could you please respond as I very intrigued by what it was.
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Sarah on 29/03/2020 3:34am
I saw this too! Did you ever figure out what it was?
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Cohen on 23/03/2020 8:02am
giant trail of meteors headed west to east 8.30pm from westland. stunning. around 50 or so of them in a row, moving steady / slow. taking up a good 30 degrees of skyline. out of this world. almost like a long worm moving across the sky
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Andrew Burrow on 23/03/2020 6:10am
Christchurch, New Zealand. Three of us were having a bbq at around 8.20 we saw a long line of lights traveling very fast across the sky. Very odd!
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Cohen on 23/03/2020 10:07pm
every night for the past few nights it would seem. saw them also from west coast, heading east across the sky. long line of stars, moving across the sky. other worldly. just stunning
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