From the Huffinton Post - December 22, 2010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/22/new-zealand-military-rele_n_800275.html


Talk about out-of-this-world: the BBC is reporting that New Zealand's military
has just released hundreds of classified files, dating from 1954 to 2009,
detailing reports of sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

The documents, which run at an estimated 2,000 pages, allegedly
comprise drawings of flying saucers as well as alleged samples of alien
writing. Also included are accounts by members of the public, military
personnel and commercial airline pilots describing close encounters, as
well as never-before-seen details of the country's best-known UFO sighting,
when footage of unusual lights was shot off the South Island town of Kaikoura
in 1978, which was then explained as natural phenomenon.

New Zealand Air Force spokesman Kavae Tamariki confirmed the documents'
release, but otherwise remained tight-lipped over their contents. "We have just
been a collection point for the information," he told the Dominion Post, adding
that the military did not have the resources to investigate UFO sightings. "We
don't investigate or make reports, we haven't substantiated anything in them."
Officials also say the files were open for scrutiny but that individuals named in
the reports are to remain anonymous.

In a move that seems inspired by the ongoing WikiLeaks "Cablegate"
scandal, the Dominion Post is publishing the entire lot of documents online.
Among the reports that have been uploaded so far are details of a 1999 sighting
of what appeared to be aircraft contrails above the sky in Auckland, during which
the writer reportedly warns, "A vast many people in Auckland will suffer flu-like
sickness." Another report from 1995 describes an incident in which a man
met an alien with massive, size 440 feet who told him dying humans
ascend as hydrogen atoms.