Fireball in New Zealand Skies

A bright fireball was spotted in New Zealand on February, 11 2015 around 10 PM NZDT – (11/02/2015 09:00 UT), with sightings from Whangarei in the north all the way to upper South Island.

Screenshot of a video captured on a dash cam from YouTube user Josh Sherborne – NZ Fireball February 11th, 2015.

According to the country’s Weather Watch, the great majority of witnesses reported a huge blinding flash. Call-ins from north of the country also reported sonic booms and even – sometimes – slight shaking.

If you saw this fireball, please report it here.

February is the start of the fireball season, when an abundance of fireballs seem to occur. This lasts well into April and seems to occur mostly during the early evening hours.

Here is the dash cam video from Josh Sherborne:

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Vincent Perlerin

Vincent Perlerin, PhD used to be a researcher in Computational Linguistics. He is now a software developer, a web designer, a community manager, an illustrator and many other things. He is working on the American Meteor Society under the supervision of Mike Hankey. Vincent is the lead developer of all the AMS projects. He's also the lead developer of the International Meteor Organization Website and the IMO online Databases management system.