Witnessed a strange white light flying over Lower Hutt. Possible Chinese Rocket.
Was standing outside at 10pm on the 12/12/22 and saw a strange white light approaching from the west in what looked like a cloud.
There were no clouds that night so I watched it for about 15 min and could not identify it as anything usual. It flew off towards the South East and eventually faded out.
I took Photos of it and later read reports from around New Zealand on the weatherwatch meteor reports website that were the same as what I saw.
Therefore it wasn't local to just Wellington and could be seen around the country. This suggests it could be high in the atmosphere. There was some suggestion there that it could have been a Chinese rocket launch that apparently occurred at 9.30pm.
It could possibly be that, but I haven't seen it confirmed.
Its very unusual to see any sort of rocket like that in New Zealand.
Was standing outside at 10pm on the 12/12/22 and saw a strange white light approaching from the west in what looked like a cloud.
There were no clouds that night so I watched it for about 15 min and could not identify it as anything usual. It flew off towards the South East and eventually faded out.
I took Photos of it and later read reports from around New Zealand on the weatherwatch meteor reports website that were the same as what I saw.
Therefore it wasn't local to just Wellington and could be seen around the country. This suggests it could be high in the atmosphere. There was some suggestion there that it could have been a Chinese rocket launch that apparently occurred at 9.30pm.
It could possibly be that, but I haven't seen it confirmed.
Its very unusual to see any sort of rocket like that in New Zealand.
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Lower Hutt
New Zealand
15 Min
15 Min
cone
WELLINGTON REGION
Occurred : 12/12/2022 22:00 (Entered as : 12/12/2022 10:00 PM) Reported: 12/21/2022 7:47:35 PM 19:47 Posted: 12/22/2022 Location: Lower Hutt, Wellington Region Shape: Cone Duration: 15 Min Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There was an aura or haze around the object, The object emitted beams
Witnessed a strange white light flying over Lower Hutt. Possible Chinese Rocket.