New Zealand & Aviation & Military
UFO / UAP Sighting Reports
New Zealand Aviation UFO Sightings:
1955 - ‘Flying light’ UFO seen by N.A.C. Captain and crew
1965 - Unidentified Submerged Object (USO) spotted by DC-3 pilot
1965 - Pilots sight ‘V-shaped’ UFO formation
1969 - Bristol Freighter aircraft / visual / radar case of UFO
1969 - Airport security officer sights UFO at close quarters
1971 - Airport employee photographs UFO
1973 - Pilot sights ‘intense ball of light’ UFO
1977 - Civilian pilot encounters black cigar-shaped UFO
1978 - DC10-30 airliner has near collision with cylindrical UFO
1978 / 79 - Argosy pilots sight the now famous 'Kaikoura lights' UFOs
1984 - Two NZ Boeing 747-200 airliners encounter 'dome of light' over Pacific
1995 - Air traffic controller sights UFO with flaming trail
2003 - Two NZ pilots sight glowing green UFO
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.
New Zealand Military UFO Sightings:
1953 - RNZAF Sunderland ‘flying boat’ encounters UFO
1954 - RAF members and Shackleton crew report unexplained green UFO
1955 - RNZAF Navigator sights speeding blue UFO
1956 - Unidentified UFO echoes mystify Air Force Base radar operators
1963 - RNZAF Pilot sights brilliant white flashing UFO
1974 - RNZAF Officer sights glowing 'bar-bell' UFO
1978 - Flight Service Officer sights 'Kaikoura lights' UFOs near Woodbourne Airbase
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: