Archives New Zealand holds the RNZAF's declassified UFO files, including the AIR 1080/6/897 series on the 1978 Kaikoura sightings released in December 2010. Open the full archive at Archives New Zealand ↗
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Kaikoura UFO Files, RNZAF AIR 1080/6/897 Volume 1 (1978–1981), RNZAF_AIR-1080-6-897_Kaikoura_UFO_File.pdf
Declassified RNZAF Volume 1 file AIR 1080/6/897 collecting interviews, DSIR working papers, and outside analyses of the December 1978 Kaikoura radar-visual UFO sightings, opened December 1978 and closed July 1981.
Royal New Zealand Air Force file AIR 1630/2 Volume 1 (1984–1989), declassified December 2010, holding sighting correspondence, a 1956/57 Bristol Freighter encounter account, and a long run of letters from a Christchurch writer on "Ethology of Light".
Royal New Zealand Air Force file AIR 1630/2 Volume 2, opened 17 February 1990 and closed 13 March 2009, the period in which the RNZAF formally stopped investigating UFO reports and confirmed it is not a central recording body for sightings.
Royal New Zealand Air Force file AIR 244/10/1 Volume 1, opened 1959 and closed 1983, holding station-level UFO sighting reports, the Moreland-sighting correspondence, the 1978 Kaikoura material, and the 1972 Ashburton space-debris event.
Royal New Zealand Air Force file AIR 39/3/3 Volume 1, the earliest official RNZAF UFO correspondence file, covering 1952 to 1955 and released by Archives New Zealand in December 2010.
Royal New Zealand Air Force file AIR 39/3/3 Volume 2, opened 1956 and closed 1979, compiles civilian and military UFO sighting reports plus the RNZAF Air Staff investigation into the December 1978 Kaikoura visual and radar sightings off the East Coast of the South Island.
Volume 3 of the Royal New Zealand Air Force UFO correspondence file AIR 39/3/3, covering 1979-1980 reports and inquiries in the aftermath of the December 1978 Kaikoura sightings.
Final volume of the Royal New Zealand Air Force's AIR 39/3/3 UFO correspondence file, covering 1981 to 1984, including the Christchurch and Temuka 1982 sightings and a 1984 Official Information Act dispute over Defence's UFO records.
Declassified Royal New Zealand Air Force subfile AIR 39/3/3A Volume 1, Parts 1 and 2, holding 1979-1984 correspondence from a single Christchurch writer on what they called the 'Ethology of Light' alongside RNZAF handling notes.
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