Witnesses have described hearing a loud boom as a meteor lit up the skies over the South Island on Thursday night.
Greg Price was recording a timelapse video of the night sky when suddenly a green flash lit up the screen.
The amateur photographer captured stunning photos from his home in Richmond on a new Nikon Z7 camera set up in the backyard.
"It takes a photo every 10 seconds and then you combine all the photos together and make a video out of it," Price told Newshub.
In Canterbury, Ashburton resident Hannah Ottley's security camera captured the moment the meteor lit up the sky.
"So, this is the little security camera, would you believe? This tiny little box," she told Newshub, holding the hand-size security camera.
"What had happened was this is a motion-sensored camera, so it only detects when there's motion in front of it, and my phone alerted me that there was motion at my back door so I pulled the curtain and I saw this flash of light and I was like what is that? Then I went back and looked, and it was actually a stunning meteor."
Dozens have reported seeing or hearing the meteor. A woman said on Facebook it "lit up the sky" as she was driving near Christchurch. Another woman in Oxford recalls hearing a "boom" that "rattled the French doors".
Otago University Associate Professor James Scott researches meteors.
"When the pressure at the front of the meteor gets so great, it actually breaks apart the rock and that's when you get the sonic boom that people would have heard," he told Newshub.
It was only two weeks ago that Wellingtonians witnessed a meteor on the horizon.
"Every month or so there are meteor showers that pass by, so Earth's trajectory intercepts these meteor showers and the meteors skim the night sky - those are what we know as shooting stars - and there is one coming up in late July so perhaps we're catching the front end of it," Prof Scott explained.
He's part of a team collating data from around the country to try and find if the meteor touched down on Aotearoa.
