The Kaikoura Lights New Zealand UFO Sighting

The Kaikoura Lights is a name given by the New Zealand media to a series of sightings that occurred in December 1978, over the skies above the Kaikoura mountain ranges of the northeastern South Island of New Zealand. The first sightings were made on December 21 when the crew of a Safe Air Ltd cargo aircraft began observing a series of strange lights around their Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy aircraft, which tracked along with their aircraft for several minutes before disappearing and then reappearing elsewhere. The pilots described some of the lights to be the size of a house and others small but flashing brilliantly. These objects appeared on the air traffic controller radar in Wellington and also on the aircraft\'s on-board radar. The objects were also seen by hundreds of people on the ground.

On December 30, 1978, a television crew from Australia recorded background film for a network show on interviews about the sightings. For many minutes at a time on the flight to Christchurch, unidentified lights were observed by five people on the flight deck, were tracked by Wellington Air Traffic Controllers, and filmed in color by the television crew. One object reportedly followed the aircraft almost until landing. The cargo plane then took off again with the television crew still on board, heading for Blenheim. When the aircraft reached about 2000 feet, it encountered a gigantic lighted orb, which fell into station off the wing tip and tracked along with the cargo aircraft for almost quarter of an hour, while being filmed, watched, tracked on the aircraft radar and described on a tape recording made by the TV film crew.

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[Jessie Roncales]

Next year would be more interesting.......

[jsfl5]

according to the papers released today by the NZ governemnt the official explanation was either light coming from Venus but distorted or lights from boats reflected off clouds. thy also said they don't have the resources to investigate these sightings properly so who knows?

[Hamish Ormond]

squid boats operate in the kaikoura ocean trench its 3km deep they need high powered lights to attrach the squid from below. it looks like they where playing a we prank on the planes , although id like to think they were ufos :-)

[worldwiderelease]

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[Maks Grymel]

If you look closely, it appears to be similar to the Bell during WW2 that has the connnection to the well known The Hendge.-

[VampireYoshi]

Given modern video technology, I wish that one of these events would happen with an aircraft capable of opening one of its doors, and taping things raw, rather than through some window, etc.

[MrJohndoakes]

Go back to CSICOP, James Randi....

[MsCkatherine]

This is kinda freaky this might turn me into a believer

[Noodles37UK]

I saw this when I was 12 or something 30 years ago. What would leave such a trail on only a single frame? That's 1 / 24th of a second isn't it?

[honigklauer]

Amazing Videotape

[adi3650]

5 stars