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welcome to somewhere in the skies I'm

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your host Ryan Sprague sometimes you

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come across a case so well-documented

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it's so detailed that it leaves you

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wanting to learn more even if the truth

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isn't what you expected or wanted and

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this is exactly what happened when I

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tripped upon a fascinating article

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published on the New Zealand news site

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stuff I contacted the editors over it's

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stuff and immediately secured the rights

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to the article today you're going to

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hear the incredible story of one woman

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who went to milk her cows on a farm in

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blend I'm New Zealand what happened next

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would alter her life and the lives of

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many around her until her dying day

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the following episode presents the

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exceptionally well documented and

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thoroughly detailed article in its

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entirety researched and written by

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Charlie Gates the episode features the

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voice-over talents of Megan massacre

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Steve massacre and Jim Reese my sincere

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thanks goes out to Charlie gates and

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these three actors for bringing this

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case to my attention and then bringing

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it to startling life it's my pleasure to

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now present to you finding mrs. Moreland

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how one woman's UFO claim exposed

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ilene Moreland went out to milk the cows

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one morning in the South Island town of

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blend I'm in 1959 she returned home

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about 80 minutes later with an

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extraordinary story

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she claimed a large craft descended from

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the sky and hovered above her her

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statement was full of astonishing detail

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she saw two men inside the craft wearing

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silver spacesuits one of them was

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missing his left hand local Air Force

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officials took her claims seriously they

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assigned an investigator who interviewed

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Moreland and found her to be credible

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and they found others in blend hime who

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had seen similar lights her story felt

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like a modern New Zealand myth and like

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all myths it expressed the peculiar

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anxieties of its time her story chimed

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worries over the accelerating technology

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of 1950s New Zealand understanding her

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story could reveal something about a

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strange moment in New Zealand history it

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also exposed how the military would lie

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to keep her story secret in the decades

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that followed what had Moreland seen

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what had happened to her since was she

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still alive could she cast a new light

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on her incident after decades of secrecy

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this is somewhere in the skies with

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blend hime New Zealand was booming

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the farming town had doubled from about

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6,000 people in 1945 to 12,000 in 1961

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the Moreland family was part of that

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Eileen Moreland her husband Frederick

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and their five children had moved to the

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town by 1943 they purchased a nine acre

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farm on the corner of old Renwick road

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in Coleman's Road in the western suburb

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of spring winds in the mid-1950s they

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lived in a modest white wooden house

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with a red tin roof and a brick chimney

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fruit trees were largely cleared to

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create two paddocks for some a shire

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dairy cows and a few sheep Moreland used

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to show the cows and local events on the

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morning of July 13th 1959 Moreland was

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42 and had been married for 19 years our

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children ranged in age from preschool to

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late teens she was tall and wiry with

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short brown curly hair and pronounced

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eyebrows she set out to milk the cows at

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5:30 a.m. it was normal for her to be up

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so early she was a hard-working woman as

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well as running dairy cows she also held

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down a few other jobs locals would turn

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to her for advice if their cows were

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unwell she was a nurse aid at the local

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Lister Hospital her husband worked as a

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patrolman and would learn air base about

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air base was one of the largest

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businesses in blende I'm by the end of

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the 1950's and was an integral part of

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the small community surplus planes were

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so cheaply to locals by the Air Force

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as children's play houses or the parts

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Moreland's hobby was reading Donald

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Parker remembered that when she wasn't

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working she was a great reader Parker

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married moorlands eldest daughter in

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more than reached the cowshed turned on

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the lights and radio grabbed her torch

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and set off across the paddock over the

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next few decades she would tell

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next 80 minutes here is what Moreland

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claimed halfway across the paddock I saw

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strange green below through the little

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class the green glow broke through the

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cloud cover and became two lights like a

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eyes of a glance everything was bathed

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in an eerie light that overwhelms her

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torch it was a horizontal color my first

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thought was I shouldn't be here and I

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made a dye for the trace from her hiding

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place among a shelter belt of pine trees

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she looked up it was the most beautiful

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thing I have seen a circular craft about

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nine meters wide and with a curved glass

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cockpit silently descended towards her

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two shafts of green light beamed down

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from its underside two rows of small

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orange jets shot outwards like spokes

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from the rim of the disc the craft

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suddenly stopped descending and began to

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hover about four and a half meters from

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the Jets disappeared and then reappeared

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pointing sideways in two rows the top

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bro spanned clockwise very fast while

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the bottom rope moved in the opposite

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direction trailing orange flames the air

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on this cold July morning became warm

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and she noticed a low hum

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Hoss get Steve but carries an enchanted

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it was just imprinted indelibly in my

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mind I just took it in I saw everything

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in those few minutes inside the curved

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glass cockpit she could see two figures

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wearing shiny silver suits in helmets

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the suits were tight like a wetsuit and

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foil the men were seated one in front of

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while flickering lights shone up from

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below them reflecting off their suits

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emerged from the craft and walked

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towards her I could see his face through

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small eyes on the helmet he was wearing

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all the wife belt in the black adidas

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chest and held small dial and a series

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of tubes coming out of his helmet his

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left hand was missing and was encased in

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then he shouted at me and a foreign

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language I couldn't recognize the man

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on board after a few moments the Jets

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again it tilted at an angle and then

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shot up into the sky at great speed as

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it retreated behind the clouds it made a

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soft high-pitched whine then she was

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air she was relieved that the attracting

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didn't know what to do next

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eventually she finished milking the cows

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while I was milking I kept wandering

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quite know what to do about it she

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husband to tell him what she'd seen I

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feared he would laugh at me I took me

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seriously and asked if I called the

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Woodburn commanding officer Arthur

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Gainsford visited the farm and

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told Gainsford about his wife's claims

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that morning a gangster found Moreland

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column and rational local police told

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him she was a rational and stable person

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Marlin sighting the claim attracted

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publicity Moreland give an extensive

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interview to the Nelson Evening Mail

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about her sighting on July 22nd the

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paper ran a story under the headline

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went to milk the cows this is what blend

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I'm woman said she saw but Moreland did

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not tell the journalist about the

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one-handed man

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emerging from the craft for now she kept

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that detail to herself Moreland was not

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alone in claiming to see the lights in

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the sky in 1950s New Zealand newspapers

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were filled with people adamant they'd

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seen unusual crafts each witness saw

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different shaped objects in the sky one

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was shaped like a rolled-up newspaper

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horseshoe a silver cigar or a flying

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barrel even many claimed to see balls of

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light traveling through the night sky

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United States they called them flying

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saucers I am here to discuss the

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so-called flying saucers their force

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interest in this problem has been due to

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our feeling of an obligation to identify

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and analyze to the best of our ability

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anything in the air that may have the

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possibility of threat or menace to the

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United States in pursuit of this

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obligation since 1947 we have received

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and analyzed between one and two

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thousand reports that have come to us

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from all kinds of sources however there

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have been a certain percentage of this

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volume of reports that have been made by

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credible observers of relatively

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incredible things it is this group of

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observations that we now are attempting

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to resolve the new zealand air force was

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curious about the sightings and wanted

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to find out what was happening in their

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airspace in 1952 Air Force sergeant

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Harold Fulton established the civilian

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saucer investigation to prove or

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disprove the existence of flying saucers

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he claimed to have 350 members in 1956

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and had logged 700 sightings by 1957

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in 1953 the air force's director of

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intelligence paid five shillings to

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subscribe to Fulton's quarterly UFO

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newsletter he wrote that the reports of

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the society were read with interest in

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1956 civilian aviation minister Thomas

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SH and believed the subject of flying

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saucers always appears to present a new

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aspect full of interest and mystery the

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Air Force took moorlands claims

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seriously enough to appoint Flight

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Lieutenant Charles Milford Jennings to

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investigate Jennings was a good choice

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the 34 year old had been in the Air

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Force for 16 years and was a decorated

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officer he was awarded a British Empire

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medal in 1953 for working 72 hours

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repairing planes during World War two he

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his honour from the Queen

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Jennings began as an instrument fitter

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for the Air Force and was now in charge

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of instruments and electrics on all

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aircraft at Woodburn he was a North

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Island boy born in ratty he who had

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moved from Auckland to Woodburn with his

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wife and three children in May that year

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he had spent five months in Woodburn the

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year before

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Jennings looked like a classic airforce

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officer with his dashing looks slicked

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back hair and light brown eyes he was

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curious about a rash of sightings but

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wanted to apply scientific rigor to the

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subject his son Lee Jennings remembers

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his father as practical but open-minded

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he was a technical person and to do that

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you have to use logic to work things

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through at the same time he was

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particularly open-minded especially for

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his generation he did a bit of yoga in

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there cooked from time to time this was

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at a time when men didn't really go into

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the kitchen he was also a hobbyist

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writer and painted abstract oil

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paintings that still hang on

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children's walls his oldest son Dwayne

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Jennings remembers how his father

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approached problems agnostic was his

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basic stance on life give me the

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evidence and I will tell you what I

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think it'll real scientists mind he used

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to say that there's nothing more

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exciting in life than being on the

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cutting edge of knowledge something like

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a UFO wasn't going to completely and

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utterly bamboozle them but Jennings was

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skeptical about people who believed the

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rash of sightings were proof of alien

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life he dismissed the civilian saucer

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investigation group as unscientific its

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publications fell far short of

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scientific investigation because of far

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too much emotive language and potted

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thinking he would prove his objective

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approach two years later when he

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investigated another sighting in June of

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1961 a pilot at what Bern claimed have

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seen a bright opulent green disc in the

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sky and felt a pain in his eyes

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afterwards

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Jennings solved the puzzle the pilot had

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an eye infection but the Moreland case

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was tougher Gainsford later wrote that

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Jennings took the case seriously

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Jennings has spent considerable private

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time on this matter he is prepared to

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turn out at any hour day or night to

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personally investigate further incidents

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Wayne Jennings said his father spent a

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lot of time on the case he must have

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spent quite a long time interviewing

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Moreland because my mother was very

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suspicious of their relationship

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his investigation was colored by the

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anxieties of 1950s New Zealand Cold War

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paranoia nuclear fears and worries over

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new technology all played a role in his

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enquiries

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in the war the trucks of the New Zealand

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Army Service Corps have been a familiar

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sight on the roads of Korea

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wherever battle has carried them Kiwi

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guns have gone too but even when the

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guns aren't firing the work still going

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on every hour of 24 there are Kiwis

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working somewhere in Korea when the time

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comes to go back they know the

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importance of the job on him these men

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and those yet to replace them will be

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proud to have been Kiwis in Korea in

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1954 the director of Wellington's Carter

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observatory Ivan

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Thompson neatly summarized the way these

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fears affected thinking about flying

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saucers in a world frightened by atomic

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bombs amazed by phenomenal aircraft

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performances the kind used to thoughts

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of space travel in living in part in a

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atmosphere of comic strip and nonsense

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the alleged flying saucer phenomena has

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developed a form of mass hysteria a

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headline in the Auckland Star in 1954

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was more succinct it read simply as

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Russia got atomic saucers a Jennings

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first interviewed Moreland ten days

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after the sighting he took along an

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audio oscillator machine which could

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generate different musical tones in

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order to find out the exact tone of the

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aircraft's engine his summary of the

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interview is packed with details about

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the size and shape of the craft the

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report notes the craft tilted and an

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angle of 15 degrees before it shot away

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and that it hummed at a frequency of 250

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Hertz Moreland did not mention the

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one-handed man in her interview and

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Jennings since she was holding something

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back he simply wrote in his notes can I

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get more out of her but he believed her

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account mrs. Mullin did not convey to me

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any impression of being excitable by

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nature she was helpful and I believe was

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quite honestly convinced that she did in

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fact see a craft his statement stands up

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and all respects

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the craft Moreland described would have

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been familiar to people in the 1950s

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flying saucers were a vivid part of the

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popular imagination

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from countless sightings and science

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fiction movies Jennings even looked for

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possible new technologies similar to

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what Moreland had described he kept a

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newspaper clipping in his file about two

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flying saucers being developed in the US

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and Britain but the flying saucers were

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in fact early prototypes of the hover

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craft and only capable of very noisily

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hovering a few meters off the ground an

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extensive program of research and

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development in the field of this flight

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which was started in 1952 is being

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conducted by Avro aircraft limited at

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Moulton Ontario

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early Studies on behalf of the United

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States Air Force proved the feasibility

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of a circular planform

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vertical-takeoff aircraft utilizing a

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system of peripheral jets for propulsion

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stabilization and control the current

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phase of the program entails the design

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and construction of the avrocar an 18

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foot diameter test vehicle for the

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United States Army but the idea that

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Moreland had seen some kind of

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experimental military aircraft was not

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outrageous anything seemed to be

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possible in the 1950s the skies above

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New Zealand were filled for the first

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time with exotic new technology capable

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of unprecedented speed and performance

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in 1955 numerous people reported seeing

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strange flying pencils over the west

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coast of the South Island it turned out

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they were the air force's new vampire

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Jets screaming across the South Island

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sky Moreland referred to vampire Jets in

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her interview with Jennings the Jets

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first introduced in New Zealand in 1951

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sometimes used would burn air base

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Moreland

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would tell Jennings that the craft shot

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away at a speed that would make a

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vampire look like it was standing still

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in a further sign of his commitment to

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the case one day Jennings took a Geiger

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counter to Marlins paddock and 3:00 a.m.

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and waited there until dawn to see if he

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could detect anything he was clearly

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troubled by the prospect that Moreland

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may have been exposed to radiation from

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the craft especially since Moreland had

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developed physical symptoms after the

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sighting the backs of my hands were

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painful blisters popped up like a

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pimples on my hands lower lip in back

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if I scratched them what a residue came

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out then more would come up I had a

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painful swelling under my left eye and a

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small patch like a brown mole that

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appeared on my forehead I did not want

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to consult a civilian doctor and would

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only see what belongs medical officer if

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the matter was kept highly confidential

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Gainsford was skeptical however and

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would eventually state the symptoms

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shown could of course be self induced

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due to nervous rain the blisters and the

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more faded after six months the

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consequences of radiation exposure were

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well known to the people living through

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the Cold War and the nuclear face-off

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between the US and Russia in Nevel

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shoots novel on the beach was a

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best-seller in New Zealand and had

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vividly popularized the deadly

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consequences of a nuclear conflict Kiwi

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soldiers had officially observed British

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and US nuclear tests from 1956 to 1958

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in Australia the Pacific and Nevada

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Jennings wrote a report on the sighting

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claim which was sent to Squadron Leader

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James McClement he replied within the

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day due to the absence of corroborating

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evidence the report does not appear to

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warrant further action it seemed like

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the case was dead but about a week later

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the Marla Baro Express ran two stories

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about locals seeing a green light in the

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sky at about 650 p.m. on August 7

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Jennings tracked down three of the

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witnesses and interviewed them

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a woman told him she was looking for her

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newspaper on the front lawn in the dark

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gradually I began to be able to see the

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details from them more clearly I noticed

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my paper big Tito and thought that's

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funny where's the light coming from so I

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looked up and saw up brought will richly

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and will green bowl alive how's the

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thing in view for several seconds and

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got the impression that it was tumbling

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over it was spinning but much faster

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than it was going along an Air Force

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officer also saw a vivid green sphere

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that lit up the grounds so that he could

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see all of the road the object it was

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rotating and it looked rather like a

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Catherine Wheel firecracker when lit he

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could not really describe the green

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color because it was unlike any other

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green he'd ever seen

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it was vivid indeed though it must have

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sounded familiar to Jennings then there

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was another break in the case

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Moreland finally told Jennings about the

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man in the silver suit with one hand the

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silver suit Moreland described was a

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familiar symbol of the Space Age in

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January of 1958 about 18 months before

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Moreland sighting u.s. test pilot Scott

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Crossfield appeared on the cover of Life

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magazine Edwards Air Force Base a b-52

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mother play

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the x-15 rocket plane for another in the

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painstaking series of development tests

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leading up to the epic mission for which

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it was designed

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carry a man beyond the fringes of the

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Earth's atmosphere and to return him to

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the ground in this powerless light Scott

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Crossfield brings the x-15 down through

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the pre-planned flight pattern without a

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hickey the space planes first free

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flight is a success wearing a shiny

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silver pressure suit helmet and black

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gloves the suit was almost exactly the

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same as the one she described Jenny's

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kept a clipping of the Life magazine

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cover in his file Moreland also told

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Jennings how the man shouted at her in a

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foreign language

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Jenny's thought it may have been Russian

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the new details were taken seriously the

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security classification on the sighting

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was raised from confidential to secret

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meaning they felt it could raise

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international tensions all communication

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00:26:19,279 --> 00:26:16,110
about the sighting was handwritten to

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avoid typists reading the details Marlon

549
00:26:25,129 --> 00:26:21,659
was told to keep her information to

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herself only three people knew about the

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man in the suit Moreland Jennings and

552
00:26:33,919 --> 00:26:31,889
Gainsford the merest hint of Russian

553
00:26:36,980 --> 00:26:33,929
involvement was enough to prompt an

554
00:26:40,159 --> 00:26:36,990
urgent response the Cold War fight

555
00:26:43,220 --> 00:26:40,169
against Russia was very real in 1950s

556
00:26:45,019 --> 00:26:43,230
New Zealand Kiwi soldiers fought in the

557
00:26:49,549 --> 00:26:45,029
American war against communist

558
00:26:53,869 --> 00:26:49,559
insurgents in Malaya from 1956 to 1960

559
00:26:56,950 --> 00:26:53,879
with 15 losing their lives the chill of

560
00:27:00,680 --> 00:26:56,960
the Cold War was also felt in Blenheim

561
00:27:02,389 --> 00:27:00,690
long range Canberra bombers purchased to

562
00:27:04,909 --> 00:27:02,399
make sure New Zealand was ready to fight

563
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:04,919
a possible war against communist China

564
00:27:11,090 --> 00:27:08,250
were serviced at what burned the CIA's

565
00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:11,100
secret airline had also operated from

566
00:27:16,070 --> 00:27:13,110
what burn in 1951

567
00:27:19,220 --> 00:27:16,080
Britain's long-range nuclear bomber the

568
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:19,230
Avro Vulcan landed at what Bern airbase

569
00:27:26,450 --> 00:27:22,410
in 1956 for the locals to have a look

570
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:26,460
the Marlboro Express ran a story just 10

571
00:27:32,570 --> 00:27:28,890
days after Russia launched its Sputnik

572
00:27:34,850 --> 00:27:32,580
satellite in October 1957 it was about a

573
00:27:37,790 --> 00:27:34,860
Russian satellite that had been left on

574
00:27:40,820 --> 00:27:37,800
their doorstep it turned out the item

575
00:27:43,340 --> 00:27:40,830
which bore a crudely painted hammer and

576
00:27:46,220 --> 00:27:43,350
sickle along with the words returned to

577
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:46,230
Moscow was just a ventilator from a

578
00:27:52,220 --> 00:27:49,050
blend I'm building more limbs new claim

579
00:27:53,870 --> 00:27:52,230
along with annotated drawings were sent

580
00:27:57,350 --> 00:27:53,880
to Air Force Headquarters

581
00:27:59,870 --> 00:27:57,360
on August 20th Gainsford vouched for

582
00:28:02,720 --> 00:27:59,880
Jennings objectivity writing that he had

583
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:02,730
no previous interest in matters of this

584
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:05,490
nature and commenced his task with an

585
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:06,570
open mind

586
00:28:12,650 --> 00:28:10,290
Wing Commander G s Martin's response was

587
00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:12,660
withering and brought the investigation

588
00:28:17,690 --> 00:28:15,510
to a close the only possible conclusion

589
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:17,700
to be drawn from the evidence is that

590
00:28:22,550 --> 00:28:20,010
mrs. Moreland was hallucinating or that

591
00:28:24,620 --> 00:28:22,560
her story is an imaginative exaggeration

592
00:28:26,390 --> 00:28:24,630
of a normal subjective experience and

593
00:28:28,580 --> 00:28:26,400
that there was in fact no such

594
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:28,590
visitation by an object as described in

595
00:28:32,180 --> 00:28:30,570
the report as for other sightings in

596
00:28:34,340 --> 00:28:32,190
August's they have no apparent

597
00:28:36,290 --> 00:28:34,350
relationship to the Mullen report but

598
00:28:38,450 --> 00:28:36,300
fit neatly with a description of Venus

599
00:28:41,150 --> 00:28:38,460
shining through a diffuse layer of high

600
00:28:43,220 --> 00:28:41,160
cloud or ice crystals and seen through a

601
00:28:45,110 --> 00:28:43,230
layer of lower broken cloud the latter

602
00:28:47,260 --> 00:28:45,120
being under the influence of a

603
00:28:50,030 --> 00:28:47,270
northwesterly Airstream

604
00:28:52,370 --> 00:28:50,040
records show that Venus would have

605
00:28:54,350 --> 00:28:52,380
appeared very bright and low in the sky

606
00:28:58,370 --> 00:28:54,360
on the night the witnesses saw the green

607
00:29:01,460 --> 00:28:58,380
light astronomer Marcel mini-art writes

608
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:01,470
that Venus can turn from dough red to

609
00:29:05,570 --> 00:29:03,810
green as it meets the horizon and can

610
00:29:08,780 --> 00:29:05,580
appear to move as it is diffracted

611
00:29:11,540 --> 00:29:08,790
through the atmosphere the planet Venus

612
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:11,550
seen against the purple Twilight sky can

613
00:29:17,570 --> 00:29:14,490
also appear emerald green the moorlands

614
00:29:20,930 --> 00:29:17,580
claims created a swirl of gossip in the

615
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:20,940
small town of Glen high on July 28th the

616
00:29:25,789 --> 00:29:23,850
Marla burger Express ran an article

617
00:29:27,980 --> 00:29:25,799
spelling rumors that have spread rapidly

618
00:29:30,710 --> 00:29:27,990
to the effect that the flying object

619
00:29:33,289 --> 00:29:30,720
left behind it a patch of scorched

620
00:29:35,830 --> 00:29:33,299
ground and that the area has been

621
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:35,840
cordoned off by the police and Air Force

622
00:29:39,830 --> 00:29:38,490
police were treating the matter with a

623
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:39,840
certain amount of reserve

624
00:29:44,659 --> 00:29:42,090
although owing to the number of previous

625
00:29:46,430 --> 00:29:44,669
reports having been cited in various

626
00:29:49,250 --> 00:29:46,440
parts of the country they could not

627
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:49,260
discount the matter entirely the ground

628
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:51,570
may not have been scorched but Moreland

629
00:29:57,169 --> 00:29:53,970
later told reporters that a row of peach

630
00:29:59,539 --> 00:29:57,179
trees in the paddock had died when the

631
00:30:02,570 --> 00:29:59,549
trees were cut up for firewood the cores

632
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:02,580
of the branches were black ash like soot

633
00:30:09,409 --> 00:30:05,490
the top branches of a walnut tree in the

634
00:30:12,890 --> 00:30:09,419
paddock had also died on August 26th

635
00:30:17,330 --> 00:30:12,900
Moreland received a poison pen letter it

636
00:30:19,370 --> 00:30:17,340
simply stated you have talked the

637
00:30:21,799 --> 00:30:19,380
fallout from the sightings affected

638
00:30:25,010 --> 00:30:21,809
moorlands children Moreland son-in-law

639
00:30:27,380 --> 00:30:25,020
Donald Parker said that years later his

640
00:30:31,010 --> 00:30:27,390
wife did not want to speak about the

641
00:30:35,270 --> 00:30:31,020
experience there is a strange epilogue

642
00:30:38,390 --> 00:30:35,280
to the 1959 sighting in March 1960

643
00:30:41,029 --> 00:30:38,400
Moreland made another claim this time

644
00:30:43,850 --> 00:30:41,039
she said she saw a distant light in the

645
00:30:46,370 --> 00:30:43,860
sky Jennings was given the case again

646
00:30:49,700 --> 00:30:46,380
and interviewed Moreland before filing a

647
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:49,710
report to Gainsford Moreland demanded

648
00:30:54,770 --> 00:30:52,530
absolute privacy of the matter and was

649
00:30:57,380 --> 00:30:54,780
given assurance the Air Force would

650
00:31:00,440 --> 00:30:57,390
never release any files or speak

651
00:31:03,230 --> 00:31:00,450
publicly on the matter games Ferg wrote

652
00:31:06,110 --> 00:31:03,240
in a memo the previous incident was the

653
00:31:08,810 --> 00:31:06,120
cause of considerable publicity much of

654
00:31:10,669 --> 00:31:08,820
which was of a derogatory nature due in

655
00:31:12,019 --> 00:31:10,679
part to a press statement issued by

656
00:31:14,719 --> 00:31:12,029
Moreland

657
00:31:17,599 --> 00:31:14,729
senior air force officers and the

658
00:31:20,180 --> 00:31:17,609
Secretary of Defense would unfairly cast

659
00:31:23,749 --> 00:31:20,190
out on Moreland's credibility and paint

660
00:31:24,379 --> 00:31:23,759
Jenny's as a biased investigator Air

661
00:31:26,989 --> 00:31:24,389
Marshal

662
00:31:29,869 --> 00:31:26,999
Richard Bolt wrote to radio New Zealand

663
00:31:32,209 --> 00:31:29,879
in 1979 stating that the evidence

664
00:31:35,180 --> 00:31:32,219
suggests that Moreland was in an

665
00:31:37,759 --> 00:31:35,190
emotionally unstable condition at the

666
00:31:41,989 --> 00:31:37,769
time a letter from Secretary of Defense

667
00:31:44,180 --> 00:31:41,999
MacLean in 1979 claimed Jennings allowed

668
00:31:47,869 --> 00:31:44,190
his obvious interest to reflect and to

669
00:31:51,349 --> 00:31:47,879
strengthen moorlands convictions also in

670
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:51,359
1979 a journalist requested the Moreland

671
00:31:56,810 --> 00:31:54,690
report the request was refused on the

672
00:31:59,539 --> 00:31:56,820
grounds that Moreland was given an

673
00:32:02,659 --> 00:31:59,549
assurance of confidentiality about the

674
00:32:05,629 --> 00:32:02,669
sighting internal minutes show they knew

675
00:32:09,799 --> 00:32:05,639
this response was not true it only

676
00:32:12,879 --> 00:32:09,809
applied to the 1960s sighting in regard

677
00:32:15,169 --> 00:32:12,889
to the original sighting in July of 1959

678
00:32:18,139 --> 00:32:15,179
Moreland was not given a personal

679
00:32:21,349 --> 00:32:18,149
assurance of confidentiality rather she

680
00:32:24,289 --> 00:32:21,359
was told by the RNZAF investigating

681
00:32:28,489 --> 00:32:24,299
officer to keep her information to

682
00:32:31,549 --> 00:32:28,499
herself a request for the report in 1983

683
00:32:34,039 --> 00:32:31,559
was also refused the decision was

684
00:32:37,129 --> 00:32:34,049
appealed to chief Ombudsman George

685
00:32:40,579 --> 00:32:37,139
Leakey the Secretary of Defense wrote to

686
00:32:42,709 --> 00:32:40,589
Lincoln in 1984 arguing the document

687
00:32:44,959 --> 00:32:42,719
should be withheld because otherwise the

688
00:32:47,719 --> 00:32:44,969
Defence Force would be overwhelmed with

689
00:32:49,639 --> 00:32:47,729
requests from the eccentric hobbyist and

690
00:32:52,219 --> 00:32:49,649
the more extreme believers in

691
00:32:54,529 --> 00:32:52,229
visitations from outer space and those

692
00:32:57,769 --> 00:32:54,539
for whom UFOs will explain all the

693
00:33:00,169 --> 00:32:57,779
mysteries of the universe the ministry

694
00:33:02,209 --> 00:33:00,179
should not in my view willingly get

695
00:33:04,539 --> 00:33:02,219
drawn into the pursuit of chimera and

696
00:33:08,479 --> 00:33:04,549
should avoid providing fuel for fevered

697
00:33:10,700 --> 00:33:08,489
imaginations the Ombudsman was swayed by

698
00:33:14,419 --> 00:33:10,710
the argument and the report was not

699
00:33:17,329 --> 00:33:14,429
released the majority of the Moreland

700
00:33:19,849 --> 00:33:17,339
files along with thousands of files on

701
00:33:22,190 --> 00:33:19,859
UFO sightings dating back to the 1940s

702
00:33:22,889 --> 00:33:22,200
were eventually released to the public

703
00:33:26,609 --> 00:33:22,899
in

704
00:33:30,299 --> 00:33:26,619
2010 after multiple official Information

705
00:33:32,399 --> 00:33:30,309
Act requests the year before a spokesman

706
00:33:35,249 --> 00:33:32,409
for the air force told a North and South

707
00:33:39,359 --> 00:33:35,259
journalists that it held no files on

708
00:33:44,519 --> 00:33:39,369
UFOs some files on the Moreland case

709
00:33:46,649 --> 00:33:44,529
will not be released until 2017 the

710
00:33:48,749 --> 00:33:46,659
sighting would haunt the man who

711
00:33:53,129 --> 00:33:48,759
investigated the claim Flight Lieutenant

712
00:33:57,209 --> 00:33:53,139
Charles Milford Jennings he retired from

713
00:33:59,489 --> 00:33:57,219
the Air Force in 1974 at the age of 50

714
00:34:03,690 --> 00:33:59,499
he had reached the rank of Wing

715
00:34:05,940 --> 00:34:03,700
Commander after 31 years of service he

716
00:34:08,069 --> 00:34:05,950
did not speak to his two sons about the

717
00:34:10,230 --> 00:34:08,079
sighting claim while he was still in the

718
00:34:12,210 --> 00:34:10,240
Air Force he later deflected their

719
00:34:15,029 --> 00:34:12,220
questions by saying that he was still

720
00:34:18,809 --> 00:34:15,039
bound by the Official Secrets Act which

721
00:34:20,970 --> 00:34:18,819
he signed upon retirement his son Lee

722
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:20,980
Jennings said he talked about it very

723
00:34:25,829 --> 00:34:24,010
briefly all he could really say was that

724
00:34:27,690 --> 00:34:25,839
he was sure that the witness will he

725
00:34:29,519 --> 00:34:27,700
believed their story he was sure they

726
00:34:32,430 --> 00:34:29,529
were not bullshitting that was his take

727
00:34:34,409 --> 00:34:32,440
on it his other son Wayne Jennings said

728
00:34:37,069 --> 00:34:34,419
his father pondered on the case

729
00:34:40,740 --> 00:34:37,079
later in life he was fascinated by the

730
00:34:42,809 --> 00:34:40,750
1979 kaikoura lights case where a film

731
00:34:45,359 --> 00:34:42,819
crew flying from glenheim to

732
00:34:48,899 --> 00:34:45,369
christchurch filmed lights that tracked

733
00:34:52,109 --> 00:34:48,909
their plane for hours he also sought out

734
00:34:56,119 --> 00:34:52,119
a 1968 book by new zealand pilot Bruce

735
00:34:59,069 --> 00:34:56,129
Cathie called harmonic 33 in the book

736
00:35:01,859 --> 00:34:59,079
Cathy plots UFO sightings on a New

737
00:35:05,430 --> 00:35:01,869
Zealand map and concludes they conform

738
00:35:08,190 --> 00:35:05,440
to a systematic grid pattern Cathy

739
00:35:10,769 --> 00:35:08,200
concludes that interplanetary spaceships

740
00:35:12,569 --> 00:35:10,779
have constructed a world grid system

741
00:35:15,359 --> 00:35:12,579
from which they can draw power and

742
00:35:18,210 --> 00:35:15,369
navigate the globe he claimed his

743
00:35:22,470 --> 00:35:18,220
findings provided a key that may unlock

744
00:35:24,569 --> 00:35:22,480
the secrets of UFOs Jennings would have

745
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:24,579
been interested discover that Blenheim

746
00:35:30,839 --> 00:35:27,690
played a key role in Kathy's world grid

747
00:35:34,140 --> 00:35:30,849
Cathy would state even before the advent

748
00:35:37,079 --> 00:35:34,150
of ordinary aircraft in New Zealand the

749
00:35:39,269 --> 00:35:37,089
area had been visited by sauces many

750
00:35:42,150 --> 00:35:39,279
recent sightings suggested a game that

751
00:35:44,490 --> 00:35:42,160
this area had something special about it

752
00:35:46,650 --> 00:35:44,500
Wayne Jennings said his father had

753
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:46,660
thought deeply about the sighting I

754
00:35:52,140 --> 00:35:49,930
asked him if he believes in UFOs and he

755
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:52,150
said he had an open mind it was an

756
00:35:58,049 --> 00:35:55,210
unexplained phenomenon at the end he

757
00:36:01,680 --> 00:35:58,059
leaned towards the idea that this was an

758
00:36:03,539 --> 00:36:01,690
alien presence of some sort he believed

759
00:36:06,450 --> 00:36:03,549
happen in later life

760
00:36:09,170 --> 00:36:06,460
Jennings took up writing his children

761
00:36:13,140 --> 00:36:09,180
never got a chance to read his work

762
00:36:17,130 --> 00:36:13,150
shortly before his death in 1999 he

763
00:36:19,170 --> 00:36:17,140
destroyed all of it Moreland never spoke

764
00:36:21,660 --> 00:36:19,180
publicly about the one-handed man

765
00:36:24,390 --> 00:36:21,670
emerging from the craft and how the

766
00:36:29,130 --> 00:36:24,400
sighting had impacted the rest of her

767
00:36:33,990 --> 00:36:29,140
life and she never would she died in a

768
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:34,000
rest home in oamaru in 2016 she was 99

769
00:36:40,319 --> 00:36:37,690
years old her family were also reluctant

770
00:36:42,359 --> 00:36:40,329
to talk one of her daughters did not

771
00:36:44,970 --> 00:36:42,369
want to talk about the sighting she

772
00:36:49,019 --> 00:36:44,980
wanted her mother remembered as a kind

773
00:36:51,059 --> 00:36:49,029
and hard-working woman only moorlands

774
00:36:53,490 --> 00:36:51,069
name at the time of the sighting had

775
00:36:56,490 --> 00:36:53,500
been used in this story to respect the

776
00:36:58,829 --> 00:36:56,500
family's wishes this story has been

777
00:37:01,099 --> 00:36:58,839
constructed using interviews more than

778
00:37:05,059 --> 00:37:01,109
gave to UFO investigators and

779
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:05,069
journalists from the 1970s to the 1990s

780
00:37:12,750 --> 00:37:07,450
interviews with family members and

781
00:37:14,430 --> 00:37:12,760
historic Air Force files in 1979 the

782
00:37:16,740 --> 00:37:14,440
government asked Moreland about the

783
00:37:20,579 --> 00:37:16,750
possibility of releasing its files on

784
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:20,589
her sighting claim after 20 years a new

785
00:37:26,549 --> 00:37:23,410
name had new place of abode I was hoping

786
00:37:29,279 --> 00:37:26,559
to sink into oblivion but somehow I've

787
00:37:31,730 --> 00:37:29,289
been found if you have knowledge of the

788
00:37:34,430 --> 00:37:31,740
full events of that awful morning

789
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:34,440
you will realize that to suggest that

790
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:36,330
the you before people are friendly is

791
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:39,810
left as I know for well I'm 20 years

792
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:43,170
older have a full life and I'm enjoying

793
00:37:48,290 --> 00:37:46,050
life in general and I just couldn't bear

794
00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:48,300
to be put through the meal again

795
00:37:54,140 --> 00:37:51,780
her desire to be left alone stands in

796
00:37:58,130 --> 00:37:54,150
strange contrast to a decision just a

797
00:38:00,440 --> 00:37:58,140
few months earlier in July 1978 to grant

798
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:00,450
a television interview about her claims

799
00:38:09,590 --> 00:38:04,410
at about this time Morland story became

800
00:38:13,220 --> 00:38:09,600
part of UFO folklore in November 1975 a

801
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:13,230
u.s. comic book titled UFOs flying

802
00:38:19,690 --> 00:38:16,050
saucers ran a strange comic strip

803
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:19,700
version of the incident a very glamorous

804
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:22,170
moorland encounters two men in

805
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:24,930
spacesuits when setting out to milk the

806
00:38:31,130 --> 00:38:28,170
cows she fears for her cow Bessie as the

807
00:38:34,130 --> 00:38:31,140
green late stalks her farm when the

808
00:38:36,530 --> 00:38:34,140
spacecraft departs mrs. Moreland is left

809
00:38:40,070 --> 00:38:36,540
with the memory of an experience she can

810
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:40,080
never fully explain to anyone the

811
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:42,450
Moreland family kept quiet about the

812
00:38:47,030 --> 00:38:44,850
sighting claims some of her children

813
00:38:49,340 --> 00:38:47,040
kept the sighting secret from even her

814
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:49,350
grandchildren they didn't want them to

815
00:38:54,980 --> 00:38:52,410
think less of their grandmother Donald

816
00:38:58,280 --> 00:38:54,990
Parker visited Moreland in the restone

817
00:39:00,830 --> 00:38:58,290
in 2015 I brought up the sighting when I

818
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:00,840
saw I mentioned it and her daughter was

819
00:39:05,359 --> 00:39:03,810
behind it out of sight of her mother and

820
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:05,369
she shook her head in a way that said

821
00:39:11,029 --> 00:39:07,890
don't talk about that

822
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:11,039
I didn't say any more about it in the

823
00:39:16,519 --> 00:39:14,130
years since the 1959 sighting the

824
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Moreland family farm in blend Heim was

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slowly carved into smaller pieces and

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lost to development the family had sold

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the farm and moved away by the early

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1970s the paddock were Moreland claim to

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have seen the craft has since been

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carved into small suburban plots in 2017

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houses had not yet been built on the

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exact spot or this strange story

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unfolded that spot remained empty just

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like the Moreland family farm the past

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has been gradually lost it gets harder

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to make out the details there was only

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one person who knew the truth the full

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story of the lights and the shadows they

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[Music]

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somewhere in the skies is produced by

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Third Kind productions in association

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with the entertainment one podcast