New Zealand releases UFO government files

BBC News, 22 December 2010

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New Zealand's military has released hundreds of documents detailing claims of sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

The files include descriptions of flying saucers like these
(computer illustration)

The files, dating from 1954 to 2009, include drawings of flying saucers and alleged samples of alien writing.

The files include details of New Zealand's most famous UFO sighting when strange lights were filmed off the South Island town of Kaikoura in 1978.

An official report from the time said natural phenomenon could explain it.

Although the incident made international headlines at the time, the military report suggested it could be lights from boats reflected in clouds or an unusual view of the planet Venus.

Following the release of the files, New Zealand Air Force spokesman Kavae Tamariki said the military did not have the resources to investigate UFO sightings and would not be commenting on the documents' contents.

"We have just been a collection point for the information. We don't investigate or make reports, we haven't substantiated anything in them," he told the Dominion Post newspaper.

The reports have been released under freedom of information laws after officials removed names and other identifying material.

The files - which run to about 2,000 pages - include accounts by members of the public, military personnel and commercial airline pilots describing close encounters, mostly involving moving lights in the sky.

All the original documents on which the reports were based are to remain sealed in the national archive.

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Blossom Goodchild channels White Cloud. Dec 20, 2010. - “Shafts of Lights .... as if they appeared from the sky." - "They are from us to you to 'get the party started' shall we say. They will be seen in various landmarks across your planet Earth and they shall be of such magnitude that they cannot be brushed aside or ignored by your media. They shall be given many names. Souls shall make reference to biblical scenarios for they will know of no other way to relate.”

"They will not be flashes of Light that one could mistake for an electrical storm. As you saw in the vision we presented you, these are shafts that contain Light. They shall stream down to your planet creating a display and no sooner has the excitement of one particular sighting settled down ... another one shall take over on another part of your world. They will not be able to be tampered with. We have protective screens that will repel any matter that may try to do so."

"There shall be 'laughable' explanations to that which we surprise you with , yet you shall know better."

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Torgeir Hansen, Norway, Dec 23, 2010 - New

Hi Everyone

I was just sent this email.

Seasons Greetings!

Hi, my name is Torgeir Hansen, I live in Norway at the west coast.

About the shafts of light! This turned up in Oslo, Norway, yesterday morning.

Thougt I let you know about it.

Although this episode has been explain by the wheaterman as light that will appear in such and such weather conditions.

A pretty sight anyway.

Go to this site for more!

http://www.yr.no/nyheter/1.7435992

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