Declassified government documents show officials were struggling to debunk TV1 footage of the Kaikōura lights UFO sightings in December 1978. In the briefing, DSIR debunks one film of the famous event, but has trouble in doing the same with TV1's footage. Bob Guard (left) and Bill Startup speaking in 1979 recounting his experience of an Unidentified Flying Object experience over the Kaikoura coast. Bill Startup, the pilot aboard a flight in 1978 when lights were spotted over Kaikoura, thought to be a UFO. Grenada eventually pulled its pursuit of UFO investigations in the UN, at the urging of the United Kingdom.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 31, 2021 09:00 UTC