New Zealand · 13 March 1977

Wellington, 1977

Reported

New Zealand's weather service, not its air force, kept the file where trained state observers - controllers and a traffic officer - had their sightings formally recorded and interviewed.

Where

Wellington

When

13 March 1977

Who reported it

Air traffic controllers (radar plus visual); a 1971 report by a Ministry of Transport traffic officer formally interviewed

Entities described

None reported

Handled as

INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED

Evidence class

GOV-1

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

UNKNOWN - Archives NZ collections search unreachable

Part of the chain is attached. The rest is still being retrieved.

What is not settled

Sighting-level detail is available only second-hand; the file could not be opened, and most of its bulk is ordinary public lights-in-the-sky correspondence. No entities and no physical evidence.

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