Other over Nelson (New Zealand) · New Zealand

The report, as filed

I am a 45 year old father of two daughters 10 and 13. Yesterday 13 October at around 7:45pm we were walking on Tahuna Beach in Nelson New Zealand. I had taken them down to the beach for a walk after tea and to eat Cookie Dough Bites for dessert. The sun had just about gone down and there was heavy low cloud cover on the horizon. All 3 of us saw this object follow the skyline. There was no noise. It had a black part at the front. It was not luminated. Trailing behind the black part was what looked liked flowing tentacles. These tentacles moved into various shapes behind and sometimes around the front part. The tentacles did not move randomly but seemed to moved in a very deliberate manner, at one time forming an almost perfect square behind the solid black part. It moved quickly across the sky before fading from sight. I recorded it on my iphone. It can be see a lot more clearly when I play it on my iphone and zoom into the picture. I've taken some screen shots of the video zoomed in. I recorded for a minute but its hard to see after about 24 seconds. Two more followed shorty after. They looked exactly the same and were spaced about 1-2 minutes apart.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #122785). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.