New Zealand Aviation, Air Traffic Control / Radar, & Military
UFO / UAP Sighting Reports

Pilot & Air Crew Sightings:

1953 - R.N.Z.A.F. Sunderland ‘Flying Boat’ Encounters UFO

1955 - R.N.Z.A.F. Navigator sights speeding blue light

1955 - ‘Flying light’ seen by N.A.C. Captain and crew

1963 - R.N.Z.A.F. Pilot sights brilliant white flashing light

1965 - Unidentified Submerged Object (USO) spotted by DC-3 pilot

1965 - Pilots Sight ‘V-shaped’ UFO Formation

1969 - Bristol Freighter aircraft / visual / radar case

1973 - Pilot sights ‘intense ball of light’

1977 - Civilian pilot encounters black cigar-shaped object

1978 - DC10-30 airliner has near collision with cylindrical craft

1984 - Two NZ Boeing 747-200 airliners encounter 'dome of light' over Pacific

2003 - Two pilots sight glowing green airborne object

Air Traffic Control / Radar Sightings:

1956 - Unidentified echoes mystify Air Force Base radar operators

1978 - Flight Service Officer sights 'Kaikoura lights' near Woodbourne Airbase

1995 - Air Traffic Controller sights object with flaming trail

Airport / Aerodrome Sightings by Other Personnel:

1969 - Airport Security Officer Sights UFO at Close Quarters

International Aviation UFO News and Accounts

Cartoon from the Wellington Dominion Post, following controversy over the 1978-79 Kaikoura Lights sightings, and the assertion that they may have been caused by the lights from squid boats! Reproduced courtesy Dominion Post.

UFO photographed from the deck of HMNZS Royalist returning from the 1965 Waitangi Day celebrations. The smaller detail taken from the negative has been independently scanned and verified as original and not digitally manipulated in Photoshop.

Source: NZ Navy Museum website: