Oval over New Plymouth (New Zealand) · New Zealand
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On Saturday the 25th of April 2015 I was at work. I am a keen amature photographer and seeing a beautiful sunset starting to form I grabbed my camera, went out the front of the store I work in and took around 30 photos. I didn't even look at them until the next morning but when I did noticed 1 only frame with three (3) black dots on it. Zooming in I was shocked to see they were not plains, birds, bugs or anything I have ever seen before. I'm sure you understand that I do not want to look like a crack pot, but am very curious as to what these may be. below is all the information about my camera and the photo. I have attached two photos taken 13 seconds apart to show one with the objects and one without. The first photo does not have the objects in it. To get an idea of scale, the building roof in the bottom of the photo was around 400 mtrs away and on top of a rise around 40 mtrs up. This photo would be pointing west out to sea.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #118683). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: New Zealand Defence Force · records window 2015-04-22 → 2015-05-09