A Kawerau woman says a "hard to miss" strange glowing object in the night sky has her baffled.
Rebecca Couchman was standing on her deck in Kawerau with her partner and a friend on Wednesday night when they all witnessed "a strange object in the sky that did not look normal".
"We were standing out on the deck and it was hard to miss but right across the sky was an orange/red light moving fairly fast heading out towards Maketu way then all of a sudden it just disappeared.
"There was three of us and none of us have ever seen anything like it before.
"And the guys that were with me used to serve in the army and they could not explain it at all. It was completely silent," said Miss Couchman.