This incident is Case 57 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 50 of the books covered by that article.
On 27 May 1980, the National Enquirer reported it had decided to award $2,000 to Dr Bruce Maccabee for his investigation into the New Zealand UFO film.
This incident has also featured in lists by various UFO researchers of the top UFO cases, including the following:
- a list of twenty UFO cases produced by Bruce Maccabee in 1999 in response to a challenge to produce “the best evidence for an extraterrestrial origin for the UFO phenomenon”.
Web Resources
Wikipedia article at : Wellington/ Kaikoura incident (1978)
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 140730.There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead included below a search box which can be used to search various leading UFO websites at the same time. You can then click on tabs at the top of the search results to list only results from forums, only results from websites I have labelled as "skeptical" etc. I have included tabs for a couple of specific websites that I find particularly useful, including the valuable archives of the UFO UpDates email discussion List. The relevant websites are all listed in the discussion of the "UFO Searchillion" search engine in Section 2.4 of the "Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack" and continues to evolve...
The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.
Book References
The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.
Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.
For discussion of the Wellington/Kaikoura, New Zealand incident see the following:
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Ashpole, Edward in his “The UFO Phenomena” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 162-163 (in Chapter 13) of the Headline hardback edition. |
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Berlitz, Charles in his “World of Strange Phenomena” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 118 of the Wynwood hardback edition. |
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Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 294-298 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Worlwide Kind”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition. |
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Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in their “The World’s Greatest UFO Mysteries” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 42-45 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Worlwide Kind”) of the Octopus hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Hamlyn softcover edition). |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-117 (in Chapter 5) of the BCA hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Blitz hardback edition, and in the Barnes & Noble hardback edition published under the title “UFO: The Complete Sightings”). |
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Campbell, Steuart in his “The UFO Mystery Solved” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 132-142 (Chapter 8 generally) of the Explicit Books softcover edition. |
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Cassirer, Manfred in his “Parapsychology and the UFO” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 8 (in Chapter 4) of the Cassirer softcover edition. |
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Charles Bowen in “The Age of the UFO” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 192-194 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Tantalising Evidence: The New Zealand UFO film”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained” , Volume 1, pages 58-60. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 415-418 (in an entry entitled “New Zealand Film”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 350-353 (in an entry entitled “New Zealand Film”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 2:L-Z at pages 675-677 (in an entry entitled “New Zealand Film”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clarke, David in his “The UFO Files : The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings” (2009) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 96, 97 (in Chapter 4) of the National Archives softcover edition. |
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Davies, Lord in The House of Lords UFO Debate (1979.0118) at column |
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Devereux, Paul in his “Earth Lights“ (1982) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 188-189 (in Chapter 7) of the Turnstone Press hardback edition. |
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Fuller, John G in his “The Interrupted Journey” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at at pages 376-377 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Epilog to New Edition”) of the revised Corgi paperback edition. |
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Gansberg, Alan and Gansberg, Judith in their “Direct Encounters: The Personal Histories of UFO Abductees” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 51 (in Chapter 2) of the Walker & Co hardback edition. |
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Garrett, Richard in his “Aliens From Outer Space” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123-126 (in Chapter 9) of the Piccolo paperback edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 429 (in Chapter 17) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition). |
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Hall, Richard in “The UFO Evidence: Volume 2 – A Thirty Year Report” (2001) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
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Halsbury (The Earl of) in The House of Lords UFO Debate (1979.0118) at column |
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Hind, Cynthia in her “UFOs : African Encounters” (1982) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 203-206 (in Chapter 19) of the Gemini paperback edition. |
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Klass, Philip J in “UFOs – The Public Deceived” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 229-234 (in Chapter 25 generally), 235-240 (in Chapter 26 generally), 241-257 (in Chapter 27 generally) of the Prometheus softback edition. |
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Knight, David C in his “UFOs: A pictorial history from antiquity to the present” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 185 (in Part 4) of the McGraw Hill hardback edition. |
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Maccabee, Bruce in “Atmosphere or UFO? A Response to the 1997 SSE Review Panel Report”, Journal of Scientific Exploration (1999), Volume 13, Number 3, pages 421- 459 at pages 431-458. Text of article, and images of article, both available online, respectively at: http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/maccabee/toc.html http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/pdf/maccabee.pdf |
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Maccabee, Bruce in Friedman, Stanton’s “Flying Saucers and Science : A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13, 17, 19, 20 (in the Foreword) of the New Page softcover edition. |
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Maccabee, Bruce in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 393-395 (in an entry entitled “Wellington / Kaikoura (New Zealand) radar visual sightings and photos”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Maccabee, Bruce in Richard Haines’ “Melbourne Episode: Case Study of a Missing Pilot” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 2-3 (in the Foreword) of the LDA softcover edition. |
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Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-62 of the Parrallel softcover edition. |
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Michell, John in his “House of Lords UFO Debate” (1979) at pages 22, 35 of the Pentacle softcover edition. |
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National Enquirer (Editors of) in “UFO Report” (1985) at pages 67-69 (in Chapter 3) of the Pocket paperback edition. |
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Nixon, Neil in his “Pocket Essentials : UFOs” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 35 (in Chapter 2) of the Pocket Essentials softcover edition. |
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Paul Norman in John Spencer’s “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 161 (in the unnumbered section entitled “Australasia”, in the chapter entitled “The Australasian Perspective”) of the Hamlyn hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 201 (in the Bibliography) of the Blackwell hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The Age of the UFO” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A bird, a plane – or a UFO?”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained” , Volume 1, page 130. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 110-114 (in Chapter 19) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Something in the Air” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123-131 (in Chapter 9), 139 (in Chapter 10) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Complete Book of Aliens and Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) a page 70 (in Part 2) of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 92-93 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the Sterling softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Reality” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 208-212 (in Chapter 14) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Robins, Joyce in her “The World’s Greatest Mysteries” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 126, 129 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Mysteries of the Universe”) of the Treasure Press hardback edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 220-221 (in an entry entitled “New Zealand Sightings – 1978/1979”) of the Corgi softback edition. |
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Shaw, John in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 222 of the MacDonald hardback edition (Part |
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Sheaffer, Robert in his “The UFO Verdict” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 214-234 (Chapter 21 generally) of the Prometheus softback edition. |
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Sheaffer, Robert in his “UFO Sightings: The Evidence” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 277-301 (Chapter 20 generally) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 169 (in an entry entitled “Kaikoura, New Zealand”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 194-195 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 173 (in the unnumbered section entitled “Australasia”, in the chapter entitled “Database”) of the Hamlyn hardback edition. |
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Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 663-665 (in an entry entitled “Wellington-Kaikoura (New Zealand) radar/visual sighting”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 649-652 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Story, Ronald in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 795-798 (in an entry entitled “Wellington-Kaikoura (New Zealand) radar/visual sighting”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Story, Ronald in his “UFOs and the Limits of Science” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 130-135 (Chapter 7 generally) of the NEL Hardback edition and included in a list of ten “best” cases offered, at pages 21-22 of the NEL Hardback edition. |
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Strabolgi, Lord in The House of Lords UFO Debate (1979.0118) at column |
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Trefgarne, Lord in The House of Lords UFO Debate (1979.0118) at column |
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Welfare, Simon and Fairley, John in their “Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 254-255 (in Chapter 10) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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