CAS-11 · Case morphotype
Moreland Suited Figure with Truncated Forearm
Also called Moreland occupants
DocumentedMorphology traceable to an official document, investigation or proceeding. The underlying claim may still be unresolved or rejected.
What is described
Air Department file wording: two figures described as men in silvery close-fitting suits and helmets, seated one behind the other inside a transparent dome; one descended and approached the witness; his left hand recorded as missing below the wrist. No face, skin, eyes or limb-count detail.
Where the line is drawn
Defined by suit and the recorded forearm truncation, not by anatomy: the helmet means no facial morphology may be inferred.
What that description rests on
First-hand civilian statement recorded in a national air department file.
The record
- New Zealand Air Department / RNZAF Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) Files AIR 244/10/1 Volume 1 (opens in a new tab) AIR 244/10/1 Vol 1, 1959-1983 5 page images held
- Best evidence
- GOV-2 / NZ Air Department, INVESTIGATED then REJECTED
- Source chain
- The document is attached to this entry.
- Document
- HELD - p29 is the Secretary of Defence letter of 5 Mar 1979 refusing release on confidentiality grounds, with a handwritten marginal note about a cover up.
- Context
- New Zealand, 1959
The case this comes from
Where it was reported
Not where it is said to come from. Where a record was actually made, and by whom.
- New Zealand Farm paddock at Fernleigh, 1959





