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Tag: 1978

2 case files, newest first.

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  Oct 19, 2026 Open

  Frederick Valentich, 21 October 1978: "It's Not an Aircraft"

  A 20-year-old pilot flying a Cessna over Bass Strait told Melbourne air traffic control that a large craft was flying above him. Then the radio went to a metallic noise and he was gone. The Department of Transport's file, now public, could not find a cause.

  • UFO
  • Australia
  • Bass Strait
  • disappearance
  • aviation
  • 1978
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  Oct 3, 2026 Disputed

  The Kaikōura Lights, 1978: What New Zealand's Government Actually Said

  In the last hours of 1978 a TV crew on a cargo flight filmed bright lights off New Zealand's Kaikōura coast, and air-traffic radar logged returns. A government cable from January 1979, now at Archives New Zealand, shows scientists debunking one film, stuck on the other, and guessing at Jupiter or Venus.

  • UAP
  • Antipodes
  • New Zealand
  • radar
  • government records
  • Sky Desk
  • 1978