UFOs over Kaikoura, New Zealand Filmed by
New Zealand News Crew On Board Freight Airplane,
30/31 December 1978, ca 0:30 a.m. (31 Dec.)

This is a report about the famous Quentin Fogarty (Australian TV reporter) UFO report on board an Argosy freight airplane, flying above Kaikoura, New Zealand. For some time, there had been a spate of UFO sightings reported by numerous individuals in the Kaikoura area. An Australian television film crew from Channel 0-10 was assigned the unusual task of attempting to capture a photographic image of a UFO. The news crew then managed to film a UFO, which followed the airplane. According to Fogarty, several UFOs flew behind the airplane. On the return trip from Christchurch the news crew also managed to film a UFO.

Predictably, UFO debunkers tried to explain away this UFO case by insisting that the footage showed fishing trawler lights. A radar report shot down that theory, when Wellington Air Traffic Control Center controllers radioed the airplane crew and told them they had a radar return from an unknown object, which followed the Argosy airplane.

This UFO footage was broadcasted on TV channels all over the world at the time. Dagsrevyen, Norway’s main news broadcast, also showed this UFO report. I can still remember the sensation this report created in Norway!

The best documentary which covers this case is “Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World: U.F.O.s.” 

The report starts at 1:52 minutes into the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWzwlUzO2cE

"Top 10 UFO Encounters: The New Zealand Orbs" (Dateline NBC):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL9c-F_vW48