New Zealand Military Releases UFO Files

[Alien Agenda]

New Zealand Military Releases UFO Files

Posted: 12-22-10 03:47 PM



Talk about out-of-this-world: the BBC is reporting that New Zealand's military has just released hundreds of classified files, dating from 1954 to 2009, detailing reports of sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

The documents, which run at an estimated 2,000 pages, allegedly comprise drawings of flying saucers as well as alleged samples of alien writing. Also included are accounts by members of the public, military personnel and commercial airline pilots describing close encounters, as well as never-before-seen details of the country's best-known UFO sighting, when footage of unusual lights was shot off the South Island town of Kaikoura in 1978, which was then explained as natural phenomenon.

New Zealand Air Force spokesman Kavae Tamariki confirmed the documents' release, but otherwise remained tight-lipped over their contents. "We have just been a collection point for the information," he told the Dominion Post, adding that the military did not have the resources to investigate UFO sightings. "We don't investigate or make reports, we haven't substantiated anything in them." Officials also say the files were open for scrutiny but that individuals named in the reports are to remain anonymous.

In a move that seems inspired by the ongoing WikiLeaks "Cablegate" scandal, the Dominion Post is publishing the entire lot of documents online. Among the reports that have been uploaded so far are details of a 1999 sighting of what appeared to be aircraft contrails above the sky in Auckland, during which the writer reportedly warns, "A vast many people in Auckland will suffer flu-like sickness." Another report from 1995 describes an incident in which a man met an alien with massive, size 440 feet who told him dying humans ascend as hydrogen atoms.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/technology/14461.html

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/4486246/Secret-reports-detailing-UFO-sightings-released

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4486327/Original-files-NZs-UFO-sightings

[Aspects of the Material World]

Defence Force releases UFO documents
NZPA December 22, 2010, 3:21 pm

 

From mysterious lights in the sky to a reported sighting of a flying saucer taking off, New Zealanders have had an intense relationship with unidentified flying objects (UFOs) since records began in 1952.

Thousands of previously secret documents released today by the Defence Force cover hundreds of accounts of what people saw, or believed they saw, and many were convinced they had been in the presence of alien visitors.

In November 1955 the writer of a letter to a government department reported he had seen many flying saucers.

"I and my nephew actually witnessed one taking off," he informed the Government.

In the same year the Napier Daily Telegraph published a photo of what was described as a flying saucer seen over Hastings, an incident which was given wide publicity and reported in overseas papers.

The documents show those who contacted authorities about their experiences were taken notice of, even if it was to thank them for their theories.

Explanations were usually offered -- the planet Venus, meteors, comets and even the moon were cited in correspondence as the likely source of the "celestial phenomena" that had been witnessed.

Private and commercial pilots were among those who saw lights in the sky they believed could not be explained by any natural occurrence.

Their detailed accounts of those sightings include maps, positioning data and drawings of lights which were very bright, moved quickly and often changed colour.

The files also cover the 1978 Kaikoura mystery, New Zealand's best known and most compelling UFO event.

A cargo aircraft reported strange lights following it and moving around it, and Wellington air traffic control detected unexplained objects on its radar which were not other aircraft because none were in the air at the time.

The files were released under the Official Information Act, and all names and other identifying material have been removed.
The original files are held by Archives New Zealand and are classified until 2050.

[Aspects of the Material World]

Here is the reports. Lots of sifting to do:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4486...-UFO-sightings

[Jennie McGrath]

The British MoD has declassified some more UFO files. You can download all the declassified files from here as PDF docs:

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/Fr...006InTheUk.htm

They include the files from both waves of release.

As you can see there are hundreds of reports. Barely a week has gone by in the last decade without someone reporting a UFO. They're a bit consice; just the date, town, county and a one sentance description, but it's still worth a browse. This is just the tip of the iceberg I'm sure, because how many people see them and don't report them? Me for one. I've had two sightings and I've told none of the authorities at all, only amateur UFOlogists.

This is good news, but we mustn't think that this is full Disclosure. We may get full Disclosure one day, and that this is a step towards it, but on its own it will be merely interesting, not Earth-shattering. The British MoD has declassified UFO reports before under the Freedom-of-Information Act, but it contained a few sightings reports and close encounters by RAF aircraft, nothing more. The govt can keep something classified for as long as they like if it is in the "interests of national security".