1978
HALL V · December 30–31, 1978
Kaikoura Lights
RNZAF radar and television film off the New Zealand coast
Kaikoura coastline, South Island, New Zealand
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Over two nights, an Australian television crew aboard a Safe Air Argosy filmed luminous objects off the Kaikoura coast as Wellington Air Traffic Control tracked corresponding radar returns. The Royal New Zealand Air Force investigation file, declassified in 1984, remains the most extensive sequence of unexplained radar–visual–film correlations in the Southern Hemisphere record.
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