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Hi Guys,

Man, posting this has been a right mare.

Let me know what you think, but we were out in the backyard here in Pram, looking up at the sky and saw this little fulla having a mosey across the airspace that was likely above Paraparaumu Airport's airspace as it was south of our location near Manly St.

Kapiti Island is to our right, meaning we are facing south. We saw it moving from the ocean in the West, most likely emerging over the beach somewhere south of Kapiti Island, then progressing Eastwards in an inland direction. Our laser focused Mk1 eyeballs put it heading across the Airport's airspace soon enough.

Filmed on an iPhone 14 Pro over about 3 minutes from 0832-0835 on Tuesday, 17DEC2024 NZDT (we fumbled a bit in the beginning). We saw it twice in the time between 2030-2039 (when the Flightradar screenshot was taken).

Nothing to our south at this time. Welly is over 50km away, and definitely not visible from here.

We got eyes on it a second time and it carried on meandering until we lost it in the clouds a few minutes later, which was when I pulled out Flightradar and verified that there were no Private or Commercial aircraft in this direction. Overall, we had eyes on for about 9 minutes as it tracked across the sky.

Flightradar Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/unusual-orb-sighting-flightradar-check-paraparaum…

Let me know if you think it might be one of them fancy new hobby drones that old-mate Kirby's been talking about? Looks like a cool Christmas present for myself - better than another poor motorcycle purchase decision.