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Meteors – Your Eyewitness Reports!

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Comments

Charlotte on 17/04/2024 11:24am

About 10.20pm in Takapuna, North Shore, Auckland my friend and I saw bright gold shooting across the sky. Was pretty big with a long tail and took a good 6 seconds or so that we saw eventually fizzed out.. enough time for me to notice out the corner of my eye and tell her to look! Amazing. Anyone else?

Kev on 16/04/2024 10:04am

Leaving Auckland ferry basin at 1946 saw large gold streak come straight down looking to the northeast over north head towards rangitoto. Not a streak across the sky but straight down

Lynette on 16/04/2024 7:51am

We are staying in a glamping cabin on Pirongia and I saw clearly a bright yellow light fall vertically out of the sky was like orange fire at tge end of it and disappeared while still in the sky

Ben on 16/04/2024 7:48am

7.45pm 16.4.24 saw what looked like a meteor over Tauranga Harbour. Bright yellowy white flash with a tail Was looking from Aongatete hills towards Whakaari White Island, line of sight north/northeast. Think I even heard a bang!

Jasmin on 16/04/2024 4:45am

Saw two bright lights flash one after the other last night around 7:30pm above Gulf Harbour. Husband and I out for a walk and were looking up at the stars. Sky was very clear. Don’t know if they were meteors but there was no sound or residual light/trail. It was like a light being turned on and off twice. I saw a third faint light but husband only saw the first two. All in the same spot above us. Didn’t look like any aircraft as the lights were in the same spot and there were no other blinking lights or sound. So assumed it was from a meteorite

Ammar on 16/04/2024 2:02pm

I saw a bright light, if we brighter then the stars but not by much. It was moving east from south Auckland. I checked if it was a plane but there was only one plane landing and that was on the other side. It was too high up to be a plane anyways. I think we saw the same thing but different times.

Lynley on 15/04/2024 6:22am

I saw this too, looked like several dots/smudge in a line, going from south to east? Between 5.15 and 5.30am. Was not above me. Would like to know what it was.

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