Kaikoura Lights 1978

December 1978, off Kaikoura, New Zealand. Lights paced an Argosy freight aircraft while a television crew filmed from the aircraft, with reporter Quentin Fogarty’s in-flight commentary. Wellington air traffic controller John Cordy later recalled tracking solid radar returns for some 40 miles, a track the 1979 file does not record. The RNZAF attributed the events to squid-boat lights, a refracted Venus and radar anomalies, stating all witnesses were interviewed; Cordy and the journalists aboard say they never were. A staple radar-visual case in In Plain Sight.

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Ross Coulthart · Valentich Disappearance 1978