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This document is taken from the dust cover of the book THE KAIKOURA UFO'S by Capt. Bill Startup with Neil Illingworth. It goes as follows. - To the air crews of Safe Air Ltd , New Zealand's freight air line, flying up and down the country at night is pretty routine business. That is how they earn there living, shifting many thousands of tons of freight each year between the main cities, with much of the flying done at night. So they are familiar with the lights, boats at sea, light houses and the rising and setting of the planets.
Early in the morning of December 21, 1978, that routine was startingly upset for two of the aircrews when they were flying off the Kaikoura coast. Strange lighted objects began to appear around the Argosy aircraft. Sometimes they tracked along with the plane for a while. They dissapeared and appeared some where else. At times they looked the size of a house and at others they were small but brilliant flashing lights. They showed on the air traffic controll radar in Wellington and also on the radar in the aircraft. And they were watched by reliable observers on the ground.
Whatever the objects were, the aircrews later agreed, they behaved as though they were looking for something - looking under some form of intelligent control. There followed a brief flurry in the press, with all the usual time-worn "explanations" But there was no hard evidence, so it looked like being forgtten as a seven day wonder. Ten days later, though, a television team got permission to shoot some background film for a programme of interviews about the sightings. Only minutes after their Argosy aircraft left Wellington for Christchurch, the whole performance began again .... as though the Kaikoura UFO's had been waiting for the camera. For many minutes at a time on the way to Christcurch, the strange objects were simultaneously watched by five observers on the flight deck, tracked by Wellington radar - and filmed in colour. One of them tracked in with the Argosy almost to touchdown.
The climax came at the biginning of the return flight to Blenheim. When the aircraft reached about 2000 feet, it encountered a gigantic lighted orb, which fell into station off the wing tip and tracked along with the argosy for almost quarter of an hour, while being filmed, watched, tracked on the aircrafts radar and described on a tape recording made by the TV reporter.
That was evidence ......HARD evidence ... and the world later saw it on television.
In New Zealand some of the authorities brushed the whole thing off as Venus, or the lights of cars or trains travelling along the coast. But in the United States, responsible investigating scientists are still extracting a wealth of detailed information from that film, which one of them has described as being comparable in scientific interest to the rocks brought back from the moon.
Squid boats .....or the first genuine and authenticated film of a UFO? So that readers can draw their own conclusions, this book presents the full facts, carefully reconstructed from the accounts of the many witnesses.
The book draws no conclusions about what those objects were, but it does present the conclusions of the two official inquires into the Kaikoura incidents .... and shows in detail why the conclusions are quite inadequate.
Captain Bill Startup was the pilot of that Argosy on the night of December 31. A senior pilot with Safe Air Ltd, he is 46 and married with four children. Before his experiences, he had not the slightest interest in UFO's, but subsequently he spent many hundreds of hours researching and collating the information presented in this book. He is continuing to look for answers.
Neil Illingworth, aged 46, an Auckland journalist and author, collaborated in writing the book from the vast wealth of information Bill Startup had collected. He has seen a UFO himself, but after talking at length to the various witnesses, he is convinced that something very unusual did happen in the skies off the Kaikoura coast ......something which has not yet been explained.
insert )) I have photos and frames from the filming of the sighting in my documents taken from the book, and it is a matter now of getting them onto BUFO page.however should someone wish to purchase the book it is published by HODDER & STOUGHTON LTD AUCKLAND, LONDON, SYDNEY ISBN 0 340 256893.
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Re: Kaikoura UFO's
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on Apr 9th, 2004, 02:37am, Evolve wrote:This document is taken from the dust cover of the book THE KAIKOURA UFO'S by Capt. Bill Startup with Neil Illingworth. It goes as follows. - To the air crews of Safe Air Ltd , New Zealand's freight air line, flying up and down the country at night is pretty routine business. That is how they earn there living, shifting many thousands of tons of freight each year between the main cities, with much of the flying done at night. So they are familiar with the lights, boats at sea, light houses and the rising and setting of the planets.
Early in the morning of December 21, 1978, that routine was startingly upset for two of the aircrews when they were flying off the Kaikoura coast. Strange lighted objects began to appear around the Argosy aircraft. Sometimes they tracked along with the plane for a while. They dissapeared and appeared some where else. At times they looked the size of a house and at others they were small but brilliant flashing lights. They showed on the air traffic controll radar in Wellington and also on the radar in the aircraft. And they were watched by reliable observers on the ground.
Whatever the objects were, the aircrews later agreed, they behaved as though they were looking for something - looking under some form of intelligent control. There followed a brief flurry in the press, with all the usual time-worn "explanations" But there was no hard evidence, so it looked like being forgtten as a seven day wonder. Ten days later, though, a television team got permission to shoot some background film for a programme of interviews about the sightings. Only minutes after their Argosy aircraft left Wellington for Christchurch, the whole performance began again .... as though the Kaikoura UFO's had been waiting for the camera. For many minutes at a time on the way to Christcurch, the strange objects were simultaneously watched by five observers on the flight deck, tracked by Wellington radar - and filmed in colour. One of them tracked in with the Argosy almost to touchdown.
The climax came at the biginning of the return flight to Blenheim. When the aircraft reached about 2000 feet, it encountered a gigantic lighted orb, which fell into station off the wing tip and tracked along with the argosy for almost quarter of an hour, while being filmed, watched, tracked on the aircrafts radar and described on a tape recording made by the TV reporter.
That was evidence ......HARD evidence ... and the world later saw it on television.
In New Zealand some of the authorities brushed the whole thing off as Venus, or the lights of cars or trains travelling along the coast. But in the United States, responsible investigating scientists are still extracting a wealth of detailed information from that film, which one of them has described as being comparable in scientific interest to the rocks brought back from the moon.
Squid boats .....or the first genuine and authenticated film of a UFO? So that readers can draw their own conclusions, this book presents the full facts, carefully reconstructed from the accounts of the many witnesses.
The book draws no conclusions about what those objects were, but it does present the conclusions of the two official inquires into the Kaikoura incidents .... and shows in detail why the conclusions are quite inadequate.
Captain Bill Startup was the pilot of that Argosy on the night of December 31. A senior pilot with Safe Air Ltd, he is 46 and married with four children. Before his experiences, he had not the slightest interest in UFO's, but subsequently he spent many hundreds of hours researching and collating the information presented in this book. He is continuing to look for answers.
Neil Illingworth, aged 46, an Auckland journalist and author, collaborated in writing the book from the vast wealth of information Bill Startup had collected. He has seen a UFO himself, but after talking at length to the various witnesses, he is convinced that something very unusual did happen in the skies off the Kaikoura coast ......something which has not yet been explained.
insert )) I have photos and frames from the filming of the sighting in my documents taken from the book, and it is a matter now of getting them onto BUFO page.however should someone wish to purchase the book it is published by HODDER & STOUGHTON LTD AUCKLAND, LONDON, SYDNEY ISBN 0 340 256893. |
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« Reply #2 on: Dec 2nd, 2005, 7:10pm » |
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on Apr 9th, 2004, 02:37am, Evolve wrote:This document is taken from the dust cover of the book THE KAIKOURA UFO'S by Capt. Bill Startup with Neil Illingworth. It goes as follows. - To the air crews of Safe Air Ltd , New Zealand's freight air line, flying up and down the country at night is pretty routine business. That is how they earn there living, shifting many thousands of tons of freight each year between the main cities, with much of the flying done at night. So they are familiar with the lights, boats at sea, light houses and the rising and setting of the planets.
Early in the morning of December 21, 1978, that routine was startingly upset for two of the aircrews when they were flying off the Kaikoura coast. Strange lighted objects began to appear around the Argosy aircraft. Sometimes they tracked along with the plane for a while. They dissapeared and appeared some where else. At times they looked the size of a house and at others they were small but brilliant flashing lights. They showed on the air traffic controll radar in Wellington and also on the radar in the aircraft. And they were watched by reliable observers on the ground.
Whatever the objects were, the aircrews later agreed, they behaved as though they were looking for something - looking under some form of intelligent control. There followed a brief flurry in the press, with all the usual time-worn "explanations" But there was no hard evidence, so it looked like being forgtten as a seven day wonder. Ten days later, though, a television team got permission to shoot some background film for a programme of interviews about the sightings. Only minutes after their Argosy aircraft left Wellington for Christchurch, the whole performance began again .... as though the Kaikoura UFO's had been waiting for the camera. For many minutes at a time on the way to Christcurch, the strange objects were simultaneously watched by five observers on the flight deck, tracked by Wellington radar - and filmed in colour. One of them tracked in with the Argosy almost to touchdown.
The climax came at the biginning of the return flight to Blenheim. When the aircraft reached about 2000 feet, it encountered a gigantic lighted orb, which fell into station off the wing tip and tracked along with the argosy for almost quarter of an hour, while being filmed, watched, tracked on the aircrafts radar and described on a tape recording made by the TV reporter.
That was evidence ......HARD evidence ... and the world later saw it on television.
In New Zealand some of the authorities brushed the whole thing off as Venus, or the lights of cars or trains travelling along the coast. But in the United States, responsible investigating scientists are still extracting a wealth of detailed information from that film, which one of them has described as being comparable in scientific interest to the rocks brought back from the moon.
Squid boats .....or the first genuine and authenticated film of a UFO? So that readers can draw their own conclusions, this book presents the full facts, carefully reconstructed from the accounts of the many witnesses.
The book draws no conclusions about what those objects were, but it does present the conclusions of the two official inquires into the Kaikoura incidents .... and shows in detail why the conclusions are quite inadequate.
Captain Bill Startup was the pilot of that Argosy on the night of December 31. A senior pilot with Safe Air Ltd, he is 46 and married with four children. Before his experiences, he had not the slightest interest in UFO's, but subsequently he spent many hundreds of hours researching and collating the information presented in this book. He is continuing to look for answers.
Neil Illingworth, aged 46, an Auckland journalist and author, collaborated in writing the book from the vast wealth of information Bill Startup had collected. He has seen a UFO himself, but after talking at length to the various witnesses, he is convinced that something very unusual did happen in the skies off the Kaikoura coast ......something which has not yet been explained.
insert )) I have photos and frames from the filming of the sighting in my documents taken from the book, and it is a matter now of getting them onto BUFO page.however should someone wish to purchase the book it is published by HODDER & STOUGHTON LTD AUCKLAND, LONDON, SYDNEY ISBN 0 340 256893. |
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