SECRET FILES: Stories in The Press from early January 1979 show that the air force had a Skyhawk readied to investigate UFO sightings following the mysterious lights which appeared over Kaikoura days before

Hundreds of pages of secret files on New Zealand UFO sightings will be released by the military this year.

The files include reports of UFO sightings from 1979 to 1984 and references to the Kaikoura sighting of December 1978.

The files are held by Archives New Zealand and were to have been made public this month, but the Defence Force is removing personal information from them to comply with the Privacy Act.

“At the moment we are working on making copies of these files, minus the personal information,” a Defence Force spokeswoman said. “Once this work is completed, we are hoping to be able to release a copy of all the UFO files, including some ahead of their release time, within the year.”

Lights were seen in the sky over Kaikoura in December 1978 and were filmed by an Australian news crew. Aircraft tracked the lights, which were also seen on radar.

A man who worked for the Transport Ministry’s civil aviation division when the Kaikoura lights were seen said he would like to see the government files.

The man, who wanted to remain anonymous, said he was working at Christchurch International Airport at the time. He saw United States Air Force planes with unusual call signs touring the area and believes the full story about the lights has not been disclosed.

“For the US Air Force to come all that way and spend three days here, there must have been something going on,” he said.

The Press sought any Defence Force files on UFO sightings under the Official Information Act in August last year.

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Jeff Peckman, Ronald Reagan and UFOs -- three great tastes that taste great together.

When last we heard from UFO booster Jeff Peckman (on December 2), he was alienated by the suggestion of some Denver council members that the threshold for putting initiatives before city voters needed to be raised because of his success at getting a measure to create an “extraterrestrial affairs committee” on the 2010 ballot.

Now, Peckman is taking on an even more powerful politician: President Barack Obama. In a letter to BO that a fellow Examiner.com blogger calls a “well-mannered but exigently crafted dispatch,” Peckman argues that “Americans have been imprisoned for over 60 years behind a ‘Berlin wall’ of oppressive lies and secrecy about UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors.” As such, he paraphrases a famous Ronald Reagan speech, demanding that Obama “‘tear down this wall’ of UFO secrecy.”

Clearly, matters such as war in Afghanistan and Iraq, airport security and healthcare for all Americans pale in comparison to this vital issue, as Peckman will no doubt convince you. Read the letter below — and then watch the skies!

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Paul R. Hill was an aerodynamics scientist who led some key projects for NASA. Also, like moon-walking astronaut Edgar Mitchell, he believed in UFOs, in part because of two personal sightings. In fact, Hill marshaled his aerodynamic and mathematical expertise to the task of determining what made them fly. . . and stop on a dime. . . and change directions in a heartbeat. The book that was the result of his labors, Unconventional Flying Objects (Hampton Roads Publishing, 1995), is one of the most respected works in UFO lore, as well as great fun to read (despite all the equations).

Hill determined that their means of propulsion were — no surprise — an anti-gravity force field. Of course, he wasn’t able to conceptualize a working model. Had he been, NASA would no doubt have yanked him out of retirement and become involved in a tug of war with the Pentagon for his services.

How, you’re no doubt asking by now, do UFOs fit under the umbrella of “Nukes and Other WMDs”? Because they beggar the question: Why aren’t UFOs (assuming, for the sake of argument, a belief in their existence) powered by nuclear energy?

Perhaps it’s impossible to configure nuclear energy to that end. Or maybe, to extraterrestrials, it’s an ancient technology long ago superseded by less hazardous scientific advancements. Come to think of it, even for an earth technology, nuclear power is old — over 60 years.

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Recently Found Vintage 1958 UFO Picture

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Long Description of MUFON Sighting Report

1958-00-00 Photographed by my father 1958. Print found recently , ES

The print was found and a scan made 12/5/09. My father never mentioned seeing the object but when we returned to the States in 1959, I remember him being a friend of Roger Early who was somehow connected with Project Blue Book. I believe the neg may have been given to Early. I do know that from living in Torremolinos, kids back then did not play with kites, model planes or paper planes. All the kids on the beach were poor fisherman’s kids. My father used a Nikon Rangefinder camera, Plus-x film and was shooting the fishing boat to use as a subject in one of his paintings. He was a famous painter (Google: Ben Stahl). The exposure seems to be f8 or 16 @ 1/250 or 1/125 because of the frozen action of the waves in the photograph and the depth of field. It’s not a blur of a bird, tear on the neg or delamination on the print. The print has a fold (visible on the picture across the horizon). The surface of the original print is clean. I used “unsharp mask” in photoshop to bring the scan in better focus. This produced marking on the body of the object. Note the shadows on the object are consistent with shadows on the man behind the boat. The man is shielding his eyes and looking at something down the beach, in the sky or out at sea and not at the object overhead. Perhaps there were two objects? The object in the photograph has an odd perspective as it looks far away yet close over the shore line. Also, note the disturbance in the air at both ends of the object. It also cannot be something on the lens as this would be totally blown out of focus. I’ve searched other photographs and have failed to see any other object with the same shape. Bruce Maccabee saw the image and could not come up with an answer as to what it could be. Nothing in a camera, especially a SLR, can produce such an effect. If something was thrown in front of the camera it would not have produced the “air disturbance” as shown -- these are not developing streaks either. Please let me know what you think. Regards, David Stahl

See pics here.. http://theufologynetwork.freeforum.ca

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Happened the same day as the White UFO Spiral in Norway.

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HOVERING ominously over the city, this video of what appears to be a triangle-shaped UFO has left Russians baffled.

Sitting motionless in the sky above the Kremlin in Moscow, clips of the unexplained object have become the most-viewed videos on Russia’s YouTube.

The two videos, one taken at night from a car and one during the day, were both filmed by amateurs

The UFO hovered for hours over Red Square in the Russian capital and was seen by hundreds of people.

The identity of the shape has not been confirmed but internet forums are buzzing with the sighting.

The UFO appeared on December 9th, the same night that a mysterious blue spiral light appeared over Norway. That was later attributed to a failed rocket launch from Russia.

Some have likened the object to one of the spaceships from Star Wars.

But others have said it is merely a reflection from inside the cameraman’s car. If the object exists experts estimate that it could be up to a mile wide.

Some commentators have reacted sceptically to the videos and have pointed out that if hundreds of people had seen the object more videos and photos would have emerged by now.

Russian reports ruled out a UFO but police have refused to comment.

Nick Pope, a former British Ministry of Defence UFO analyst, said it was “one of the most extraordinary UFO clips I’ve ever seen”.

“At first I thought this was a reflection but it appears to move behind a power line, ruling out this theory.”

A spokesman for aerospace journal Jane’s News said: “We have no idea what it is.”

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