New Zealand · 13 July 1959
Farm paddock at Fernleigh, 1959
DocumentedThe wife of an air force serviceman told RNZAF investigators she was pinned in a green beam by a craft whose helmeted occupant climbed out, shouted at her, and had no left hand below the wrist - and the Air Department wrote it all down before deciding not to look further.
- Where
- Farm paddock at Fernleigh, near Blenheim / RNZAF Woodbourne, Marlborough
- When
- 13 July 1959
- Who reported it
- 1 civilian farm worker, wife of an RNZAF serviceman; report routed to the Air Department through her husband's unit; police also contacted
- Entities described
- 2 figures
- Described as
- Two figures described as men, in silvery metallic close-fitting suits with helmets, seated one behind the other inside a transparent dome; one descended, approached and shouted in an unintelligible language; his left hand recorded as missing below the wrist. No face, skin, eyes or limb-count detail.
- Handled as
- INVESTIGATED / REJECTED
- Evidence class
- GOV-2
What the record resolves
The record carries a garment, a helmet or an enclosure. The body inside it is not described.
Silvery close-fitting suits and helmets, seated under a transparent dome. The left hand recorded as missing below the wrist is the one anatomical detail.
The record
An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.
- New Zealand Air Department / RNZAF Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) Files - AIR 244/10/1 Volume 1 (opens in a new tab)
The document is attached to this entry.
What is not settled
Single witness, no physical evidence, no corroborating observer. The file records that the Air Department found no objective evidence and no reason to continue investigating, and the investigating officer noted she appeared emotionally unstable at interview. Residual-radiation claims and precise height estimates circulate in UFO literature but are not in the official text.
