Mysteries, Chemtrails, Aerosols :: Mysterious NZ

[Majortom]

Date: Late May 2009
Location: Whenuapai, Auckland
Time: Approx 19:25

I was walking the short distance back to my sleepout from the carport when I noticed a bright white light travelling moderately quickly in a northerly direction overhead.

Considering the fact that I live very close to RNZAF base Auckland I assumed that it was a night training flight although I didn't recall hearing any aircraft taxiying or taking off from the base (I live in such close proximity that any aircraft movement is audible). I then noticed that the object wasn't displaying the mandatory navigation, tail and rotating anti collision lights. There was no sound whatsoever.

I watched the light until it disappeared from sight. I estimate that it would have been at an altitude of around 2,000 - 2,500 feet and travelling at around 200kts. The weather conditions were clear and cool with no cloud cover. Stars were visible. The light was far too large to have been a satellite and it definitely wasn't a meteorite.

I grabbed my airband scanner and tuned into Whenuapai tower. It was off watch. I waited in case it was a light aircraft flying into the Dairy Flat aerodrome but there was no radio activity to suggest this. I then checked domestic and international arrivals and depatures from Auckland International on the internet but there were no movements for that particular time. I called Whenuapai the following morning and spoke briefly to ATC but they confirmed that there was no flying activity in or out of the base during that particular evening. Aircraft still operate when the tower is off watch but a message warning of military flights and runway in use is broadcast on the Whenuapai ATIS. There was no such warning message on the ATIS that night. As a matter of interest, Pilots still broadcast intentions and position even when the tower is unoccupied .

I am unable to confirm that what I saw was an aircraft .There was an absence of sound and nav/warning lights which is highly irregular and unusual (not to mention illegal). I am satisfied that there were no domestic or international flights at that time and I am very confident that my height and speed estimates are acurate approximations.

I am an aviation enthusiast, a former Air New Zealand ramp employee and I have lived on RAF stations in the UK during night flying training so I am very familiar with aircraft at night. I have also observed such nocturnal activity from aircraft at RNZAF base Auckland and believe me, they make a noise and always display their nav, tail and anti collision lights.

[Crakka]

Welcome Majortom. Thanks for sharing your interesting observation with us :) As far as I'm concerned now, West Auckland especially around or just off the coast, is a hotbed of activity of one kind or another. Most people aren't looking for it and so never see it :wink:

[ruapaka]

Haere mai Majortom

Thanks for your post - interesting. I know someone who told me of similar sighting down these ways (Marlborough).

[A Butler]

have seen the same thing down here.Have you read any of Bruce Cathies books? If you havent I would recomend them,especially living where you do.

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[schadow2012]

and plus i'm really jealous because i sleep upstairs with my curtains open (hehe not pervy) to watch the skies and i missed it (probably cos i face toward the city lol) but hey majortom do you hear aircraft flying at really weird hours of the night the last few months? also people isnt there a lot of odd activity reported between hobsonville and birkenhead whatever that waterway is ?

[schadow2012]

god i'm back :oops: - reported not in the mainstream

[A Butler]

interesting your comment on aircraft flying at weird hours in the last few months.We have noticed a lot more overnight flights down here in Marlborough.All the aircraft seem to be heading east to west or vice versa.Definiteley a lot more activity and the fact I am a light sleeper I know it is not usually like this.

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A large military excercise is being conducted towards the end of August in, amongst other places, Riverhead Forest so there will be a lot of helicopter activity in and out of Whenuapai during this time. The notice I saw also advised that there will also be a lot of military vehicles on the road during the period(presumably based at Whenuapai for the exercise).

So don't panic - it's not a saucer recovery mission or NZ's version of the Rendlesham Forest incident :)

[Crakka]

I wouldn't wanna speculate or anything but... if those strange trails out west are connected in any way to HAARP and HAARP amongst other things can be used to track things such as submarines/other submerged vehicles, and the orions are primarily submarine hunters and radar platforms (and of course they had a recent refit in Canada I think it was), and there's a military exercise out west this month in the same vicinity as all these trails have been seen... Of course, that's probably a complete wild goose chase but... it does make one wonder what military technology might be getting tested during that exercise... 8)

[schadow2012]

thanks for the info majortom . With the ex having been ex-airforce I have lived near bases over nz so I pretty much know the sound of all the aircraft but some of these in the early hours sound really "weird", sorry for the layman explanation :oops: I have heard one a few times (tho not lately) and it sounds like a car braking with no brake shoes ... maybe you can enlighten me :D

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