The Kaikoura UFOs. By Bill Startup

The Kaikoura UFOs by Bill Startup.

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1980, First Edition.

Good hardback and jacket, rubbing and bumping to edges, dent on spine and edge, boards; ffep has been removed, no inscriptions, tanning and foxing to pages. Jacket has some rubbing and shelf-wear with a tear to top of spine.

 209 pages with photos.

The first encounter with UFOs recorded on film supported by visual and radar observation. It has been around 35 years since unidentified flying objects were observed off the coast of Kaikoura during the Christmas/New Year break of 1978. At the time, news of the sightings was reported worldwide and to this day they remain a huge source of controversy. But the remarkable thing about the sightings is whatever was flying around that night was not just observed, it showed up on radar too and was caught on film. It is one of New Zealand's biggest mysteries and one of the world's best documented sightings of a UFO. "The most important thing I think about his story is that even to this day, the flight crew and the air traffic controllers are adamant that we saw something highly unusual that can't be explained in mundane terms," says journalist Quentin Fogarty. "Now, 35 years later, they still believe that." The pilot that night was Captain Bill Startup.

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