Kaikōura and the Lights Filmed from the Air
In late December 1978, over the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, the crews of Argosy freight aircraft saw bright lights accompanying them on several consecutive nights. Radar at Wellington confirmed returns. On 31 December an Australian television crew was taken aboard; the cameraman David Crockett filmed the lights on colour stock, and the footage went round the world — one of very few films of the phenomenon shot from an aircraft with simultaneous radar confirmation. The astronomer William Ireland offered an explanation: the lights of squid boats reflected off a temperature inversion, plus Venus. It accounts for some of the episodes and not others.
Edwards and the Night on Tape
On the night of 3 October 1965 controllers and aircrew at this California base and the range next to it spent several hours tracking unidentified objects that hovered, separated and closed again. The radio recordings survive and were later declassified — officers can be heard discussing the sighting in real time. Dozens of people saw the objects from the ground, base command among them. An aircraft was sent up and found nothing. Edwards is a test base where things that were not reported were being flown in those years, and that is the main explanation. It does not settle the central question: why the base's own staff could not identify what was happening.
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