UFO. New Zealand

Date: Friday 29 January 2009

Time: 10 pm

Location: Havelock, Lower Pelorus Valley, Marlborough, South Island

Features/characteristics: ball of bright white light

Description:

Duration of sighting 3 to 4 minutes.  Clear night sky, no clouds, no one is, very good visibility.  Full moon and some stars.  Viewed with binoculars.

The witness was on the phone, sitting on her veranda at around 10 p.m.  She noticed what looked like a large bright star moving across the sky and over the valley in a south easterly direction towards the township of Blenheim.  As it got closer, she could see that it was a large ball of bright white light – not sparkling, and with no tail.  It was travelling at a low altitude over the hilltops – much lower than most planes seen in that area (hills approx 700 feet high).
Its speed was steady, “Not zipping across the sky by any means, yet not slow either.”

It did not vary its path, and appeared to keep a constant altitude.  There was no sound on its approach or as it passed (the family is quite familiar with the different sounds of a range of different aircraft that fly over the rural area – there was no sound from this object.)

Her husband also saw the object and viewed it through binoculars.  He was unable to determine any detail – just ball of light.  They watched the light for several minutes as it travelled beyond trees on hilltops at the back of their property.

The witness was on the phone to her mother, who lives in Blenheim, when she sighted the object.  Blenheim is 60 km from the witness’s property.  The mother went outside while on the phone, and also saw the object.  They both hung up their phones in order to fetch cameras, but there was not enough time to get an image.

The witness spoke to her mother again, who told her the light had kept moving in a south easterly direction over Blenheim, towards Marfell’s Beach, heading out to sea south east of Wellington.  She also described the object as a ball of white light.