A bright fireball was observed over New Zealand's North Island at 09:31 UTC (22:31 NZDT) on November 17, 2025, captured by multiple Fireballs Aotearoa cameras, including the color camera at Tauranga Astronomical Society in Matua and station NZ0033 in Katikati.
© Fireballs AotearoaBright fireball over North Island, New Zealand on November 17, 2025.
A very bright fireball was recorded over New Zealand's North Island at 09:31 UTC on Monday, November 17.
Fireballs Aotearoa reported captures on several network cameras, including the Tauranga Astronomical Society (TAS) color meteor camera in Matua, Tauranga, and the Katikati station.
No trajectory, radiant, absolute magnitude estimate, fragmentation data or potential fall area has been published at this time. The event occurred near the nominal Leonid maximum (active November 6-30 with peak around November 17), but any shower association remains unconfirmed pending analysis of multi-station data.
Note that the audio heard on the clip below is wind noise on the microphone, not sound from the meteor.