Is it a bird? A plane? Here's what Kiwis saw in Friday's night sky

Friday, 6 December 2019

An object was visible in Friday's night sky and it has many New Zealanders asking, just what was that weird thing?

Jason Wilmshurst from Katikati in the Bay of Plenty thought it was a large meteor over Rotorua. He told Stuff it was 'huge'.

'It moved across the sky from east to west, heading towards Taupo.'

Manka Li has other ideas about the thing in the sky that was spotted just before 9.30pm. Li asked Stuff if it was perhaps a falling stone. 

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Napier resident Simoné Du Buisson said it was visible from the suburb of Tamatea.

This snap was simply titled Something weird in the sky.

It seems the object was less a UFO and more of an electron rocket launched by Rocket Lab on a mission titled 'Running Out of Fingers'.

The name is a nod to the tenth electron flight since they began in May 2017.

You can watch the lift off below.