Witnessed a strange white light flying over Lower Hutt. Possible Chinese Rocket.

EVENT DATE

Dec 12, 2022, 10:00 PM

LOCATION

Lower Hutt, Wellington Region, New Zealand

NUFORC FIELDS

Open NUFORC

SHAPE

Cone

DURATION (NUFORC)

15 Min(00:15:00)

WITNESSES (NUFORC)

2.0

CHARACTERISTICS (NUFORC)

Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams

NARRATIVE

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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