New Zealand became the latest country to declassify government reports on UFO sightings on Wednesday.
The New Zealand Defense Force released over 2,000 pages of reports by civilians, military personnel, and pilots, detailing unexplained aerial sightings (UAS).
The documents include media reports, witness interviews, drawings of spaceships and aliens, as well as accounts from people who say they are in contact with aliens.
In one sighting report, a man, whose identity was not released for privacy reasons, described his encounter with an unusual flying object: “Although I have been rather skeptical about such reports, and have attributed them to meteors, etc., I was convinced that this did not line up with what I have seen in the sky of New Zealand or anywhere else.
“The main reason for not confusing it with meteors was that it had a clearly defined outlined shape, rather than a mere source of light. … It was no normal aircraft, as it was entirely illuminated with a bluish white and trailed a streamer of light of the same hue. As far as could be judged, the travel path was straight and level, parallel with the ground.”
Another document recorded an interview from 1995 with American ufologist George Adamski, who described in detail many experiences with alien beings.
“What kind of instruments do they [aliens] have?” Adamski was asked in the interview.
He replied: “Well, all types of instruments. Every type of instrument that could be imagined, for the work they almost have to have it since they are traveling in space. There is so much more to be encountered and expected than we do [have] in our own atmosphere.”
When asked whether the aliens’ instruments resembled those in human-made planes, he said, “No, there are no needles or compasses like that, everything is a color chart or color graphs.”
Many of the reports have never been verified or disproved, and the Defense Force would not comment on the content of the documents. Before the release, Air Force Squadron Leader Kavae Tamariki told the Dominion Post that the Defense Force was unable to formally investigate or verify the documents due to lack of resources.
“We’ve just been a collection point for the information. We don’t investigate or make reports, we haven’t substantiated anything in them,” Tamariki said.
Other governments that have declassified information on UFO sightings include the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Argentina, Brazil, and Denmark.
