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Letters to UFOCUS NZ
Dear Suzanne I thought I should put forward my story about a UFO sighting, because I am wondering if there is any further information anywhere about it. At the time ( mid 1970s around about), I was teaching at Oxford Crescent School, Upper Hutt, and at morning break the children spotted of ‘flying saucer’ hovering above the back playground. The whole school population (over 400 people) went out to see what it was. There was much excitement and conjecture. What I remember was that:
I didn't believe it was a weather balloon, because it certainly did not look like, or ‘behave’ like a weather balloon, and it had been absolutely stationary for two hours plus. That's not easy to do in this fringe area of windy Wellington. As I was one of the very curious type, I kept an eye on it, and at about 1.30 or two in the afternoon, it moved, but still no noise. I was standing straight under it (along with a hundred odd kids as well, of course). It moved vertically upwards and stood there for about three minutes and then shot straight up at great speed, and in no time at all it disappeared - and still no noise. There was a lot of to and fro-ing in the media about this sighting (possibly sighted by 5000 people), and eventually the ‘powers-that-be’ and the media managed to convince 90% of the population that was a weather balloon, and the story died. I will always know it was a UFO and I am glad I saw it, because otherwise I would never believe others who have seen them. Obviously, it didn't come to do us harm otherwise it would have. Most people that I told about this experience didn't believe me, even though I am considered to be intelligent, realistic and stable. I was not surprised, because really, only seeing is believing. O.W.
Hi guys I live in a rural location and on one particular crystal clear night, my husband and I observed something very unexplainable. We arrived home around 10 p.m. - car parked, husband out on driveway taking in the sky scene, fresh air and quiet. Me - I was still at the car gathering all the stuff that was to go up to the house. I heard my husband say something. A little annoyed, I gruffly replied, “What!” as I continued gathering. By this time I had finished gathering. When I finally got alongside him, he said, “See that?” Do you know what I have thought to be strange about the sighting? My husband and I came inside afterwards and didn't go on about it - no real excitement - something I would have expected of myself in any case, and definitely both of us on this occasion. It was huge!! Not a single sound though, as we stood there watching it. It was REAL and there were two of us seeing the same saying. We just carried on with the evening! I thought the first thing I would have done would be to phone my mum, who would love to see a UFO in her lifetime. Very strange. Pelorus Sound
I have had quite a few strange experiences in my life, and a few UFO sightings, although only one that was truly unexplainable. ‘Lights in the sky’ is one thing, but what I saw was truly unexplainable. This sighting occurred in the far North, just north of Sandy Bay, Whangarei, around December 1989, in quite a remote area around an hour or so into the hills from any main centre. I was eight years old, and was with my brother, my father and his partner. It was night time and we had just parked at a scenic lookout to look at the sky. I noticed right away that the moon looked very strange, then to my astonishment, I realized that what I was looking at was not the moon at all; the moon was in another part of the sky and clearly visible. An object that was more or less a perfect diamond shape was stationery in the sky. It was massive and was glowing pink with ‘segments’ visible in the diamond shape. I pointed it out to my brother who is two years older than me, and he immediately became frightened and hid on the back seat. My father and his partner could see it as well and were very perplexed and baffled by the sight. After hanging around for a good 10 minutes or so, the object just disappeared. We could hear no sound at all either. This incident started my interest in UFOs and the paranormal. To this day, my brother and father remember the incident and I recall it vividly. The object did not look like a spaceship, however, how would we know what one would look like? It seemed like a piece of nature rather than a craft. I have never seen anything like it again and have never heard anyone talk of a similar UFO. M.R.
Dear Suzy We took off and my sister tried to keep a steady pace for the next few miles home, with the lights still in view for some time. We were pretty shaken by the time we reached home, mainly because we couldn't explain what we had seen and experienced. We telephoned the local flying club the next day to see if anybody was out and about that evening, but nobody had been flying. The next day we made a strange discovery. The entrance to our farm driveway was made of two wooden sides or fences. We found that they were completely destroyed, not by a car, nor was there any sign of an accident. There were no skid marks or broken bits of fence lying around. The wood was splintered like matchsticks and the tiny pieces were lying around all over the ground where the fence had been. It was as if an explosive had gone off. We still can't identify or explain what happened to this day. S. M. North Island
Dear Suzanne A couple of years ago (2005) my daughter and I had an unusual sighting. My daughter was putting the rubbish bin out by the road at around 9.30 – 10.30 pm. She called me to come out and look at something, which I did. We were standing at our front gate looking SSE. We saw these small lights in the sky with a distance between each of them – in a kind of formation. It was a cloudy evening, and we could see the lights moving from left to right. We watched for a few minutes, then I ran inside to get my camera. I took a photo hoping that the lights would show up, but when the film was developed it was completely different to what we saw with the naked eye. The clouds were not visible and there were huge round shapes of bright white light. Now that is not what I took a photo of! There was no sound whatsoever. I can’t understand what happened to the clouds! Regards
Dear Mr Opie I read your interest in unusual flying objects and thought I would tell you about something I saw once, that may interest you. Late evening of 31 December 1944, I was on a beach in Queen Charlotte Sound when I heard a ‘rushing’ sound. When I looked up I saw a round object traveling west to east above the hills parallel to the surface (horizontally above the hills). The Marlborough Express reported the object as being a meteor(ite) (2nd & 4th January 1945). Reports came in from Wairau Valley. Wellington, Carterton, Masterton and Castle Point. Fishermen off Porirua Harbour described it as having a crimson centre merging to brilliant white, then a blue trail like a car exhaust. Reports were that it was traveling slowly and leaving a smoky trail. People at Castle Point reported that there was a loud explosion with a red ball going on further and then the colour going out just off-shore. Nothing was ever found of its remains if indeed there was an explosion. I doubt that there was an explosion, but that it (an object) went through the sound barrier, and seemed to disappear because the sunlight was no longer shining on it. Whether the object was some experimental thing or something else I don’t know. I expect it would have been reported in the Wellington papers and perhaps Auckland at the same time. I only know of one other person who saw the actual object as I did, traveling horizontally (which meteorites do not do) and virtually silently. I only hope this may be of some interest to you Yours sincerely Dear Suzanne Regards
Hi Sue, Graeme
and team Taking up the entire width of the road about 100m in front of us was a glowing green elliptical shape. It was hovering around 10-20m above the road, and was about 20-40m in width. It was a solid colour, ie it could not be seen through, but it was not a clearly defined material (eg metal). The colour was more like one of those 'glow-in-the-dark' balls and did not appear to shed light (onto anything nearby). The shape was a classic UFO elliptical (saucer) shape - even and clearly defined. I was driving, and with an expletive you can probably surmize!... I slammed on all anchors and came to a halt. We would have driven straight under it if I hadn't stopped. After what seemed like 5-10 seconds, during which all three of us gazed in awe (the other witness was asleep), the object then shot up and away over the Stockton Range at an unbelievably fast speed - I can only guess at something like 10-20 km in a second. We reported this to the local newspaper in the hope that someone else had seen it, but no takers. However when I mentioned it to an old timber worker (now deceased) from the Victoria Forest Park (now named Kahurangi), he said he had seen these objects before, but didn't tell people about it in case they thought he was nuts. I will contact the other witnesses who were with me in the car on that evening, so that they can provide independent verification of this sighting. I am a science teacher, and I know what I saw. It was not any kind of aircraft. Science teacher South Island.
Dear Suzanne To this day I have never forgotten the experience and never will. To this day I can still see the object and remember the shape. I have kept the secret all these years. I was living in a State housing area, and it was 9 o'clock at night. I had gone out to the kitchen to make a cup of tea, and my attention was drawn to a large white light outside the window (it was dark). It was a light I had never seen before. I went to the back door and opened it, and there in the vacant section over the fence at the back of the house, I saw a large object about the size of a house. It was square in shape and had something like 'turrets' on all four corners. Had OI climbed the fence, I could have walked over to it, but I was too scared as I had a young child asleep in the house. I stood transfixed, and after about 20 seconds, it completely disappeared almost as though it knew it had been spotted! The bright white glaring light just disappeared like someone had turned it off - and it was gone. I went over into the paddock the next morning to look for marks in the grass, but there were none. I never saw it again, and there was no indication that anyone else (in the neighbourhood) had seen it. After that experience I am a firm believer that UFOs exist. J. E. New Plymouth North Island (UFOCUS NZ - see 'Articles' page, 'UFOCUS NZ Research Articles', 'Geometry
in the Sky' for descriptions of rectangular shaped craft sighted over
the Bay of Plenty). A
witness account from the time of the Gisborne UFO flap, late 70s - early
80s. Hullo Suzanne
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