Rotorua UFOs: Space shuttle theory

Claims of a UFO being seen over Waikite Valley have prompted other people to share their UFO sightings.
Rotorua's Chris Heywood posted footage of a possible UFO on video sharing website YouTube. The video was posted a week ago and has since had more than 5650 views.
The footage has prompted others to share their footage and give their opinion on what the clip is of.
Rotorua's Scott Branch was with Mr Heywood when the duo saw the strange object.
"We were lost for words as most people would be in this situation," Mr Branch said on The Daily Post's Facebook page.
"The video was almost taken on a horizontal angle, and I believe we were only about 300 metres away from it, satellites don't hover down 20 metres from land and hover in one spot and move around then take off over hills then race back into the clouds. We are not alone."
After the story featured in Friday's The Daily Post, Rotorua's Andrea Colledge posted two videos of separate incidents on YouTube (top and below). She said she had seen a lot of unidentified objects in Rotorua skies this year but had only manage to catch two of them on film (one pictured). One Rotorua resident posted on the Facebook page that lots of strange objects had been spotted in Rotorua skies recently.
"Me and a friend saw something odd back in January was like a meteor but in front of the clouds," she said.
"But it was really weird nothing like this though, this looks more like a laser light or something or a strong spotlight."
A Christchurch man also contacted The Daily Post claiming the image could be that of a space shuttle.
"It was the shuttle re-entering," he said. "It came across the Indian Ocean and under Tasmania and then up to the left of New Zealand."
He said the shuttle was then headed for Florida.
"So what you saw was the end view of the shuttle with the re-entry flare," he said.
"The other thing often seen is weather balloons that grow in size as they get higher and they catch the moonlight and so appear as a object and then suddenly shoot off at [the] end as they deflate."