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NZ Files
UFOs in New Zealand
Imported from New Zealand
By Peter Hassall
Our Price: $19.95
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Our Item Code: NZFiles
Postage Code: book1
160 Pages, Trade Paperback
Cover Size: 6 x 9 inches
David Bateman Ltd (NZ)
Related listings: UFO Regional Cases -- Outside USA: Book Assortment
Date: 1998
ISBN: 1-86953-370-4
Country of Origin: New Zealand
Added to Catalog: 11/5/98
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Features: Table of Contents, Index, Bibliography, Appendix, Photos, Drawings
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Our Review |
Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate |
UFOs from a New Zealand perspective.
On first inspection, this seems to be a reasonable
local study of UFOs, with little rehashing of worldwide
claims. Where foreign cases are mentioned, it is usually
in relation to New Zealand ones.
New Zealand is not a very big country, so there are not
a lot of cases, so those described seem well documented,
including photos and drawings.
Includes an 11-page declassified report from the
New Zealand Defence Force on the Kaikoura radar-visual
sighting,
arguing that in favor of natural phenomena.
-- Glenn Campbell
Comparison to Other Books
Similar to The Oz Files,
the study of UFOs in Australia, and
The UFO Files,
the study of UFOs in Canada.
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Publisher's Synopsis
New Zealand has had its share of mysterious happenings and unidentified
flying objects, from the 1909 "scareships," through the world famous
Kaikoura UFOs of the seventies, to crop circles and abductions.
There have been hundreds of recorded sightings this century and
possibly thousands more not recorded. This book attempts a history of
UFOs in New Zealand. Taking the most famous cases, the author presents and then
analyses the information and leaves it to the reader to decide if we are indeed
being visited by aliens from outspace, unknown terrestrial life forms or
natural phenomena we don't yet understand.
The results are both fascinating and little frightening --
whatever the answers, it cannot be denied that something did happen
in many cases, something that could not be explained away.
From the Book Cover
Witnessing a UFO -- an unidentified flying object --
can be a shattering experience.
Nine out of ten UFO witnesses do nothing, fearing ridicule.
Yet
New Zealand has had its far share of mysterious happenings
and unidentified objects, from the 1909
'scareships' and the flying saucers of the 1950s, to the
world-famous Kaikoura lights of the 1970s and more
recent evidence of an alien presence -- burnt circles, claimed abductions
and alien sightings. Many are later indentified as natural
phenomena -- bright stars, satellites, ball lightning -- yet there
are still hundreds of sightings that are as yet unexplained.
In this book, Peter Hassall presents a history of UFOs in New
Zealand. Many are already well known, having made the major
newspapers, but there are others that have been kept quiet for
years -- and asome that have been "hushed up" by official sources.
The evidence is documented, and suggestions are made as to what or who
may be responsible. The results are both fascinating and a little
frightening -- for many cannot be explained away; something
very odd happened, somethign we do not yet understand.
Also, the full official New Zealand Defence Force
report into the Kaikoura UFO sightings is made public for the
first time in this book.
Various UFO interest groups are discussed, including the bizarrer, with chapters
devoted to the many scientific efforts that have been made made to discover
the origins of UFOs. It is left to the reader to make their own decision
about what is actually out there.
Peter Hassall has been a UFO researcher for over twenty
years and has built up extensive files on New Zealand sightings
as well as keeping up with overseas cases and theories.
He approaches the data with a sceptical eye, but admits that in a
small percentage of reports the event cannot be explained.
It is this element of his research that makes it most exciting.
Peter Hassall currently lives and works in Wellington.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The 1909 Scareships
2. 1952 Flying Saucer Panic
3. Kaikoura Lightshow
4. Flying Saucers, Alien Golfers and Other Tall Tales
5. Abducted!
6. Circles of Mystery
7. The Camera Never LiesQOr Does It?
8. The Space Gods
9. Weird Science
10. Far and Away
11. Close to Home
12. Great Balls of Fire
13. Sorting Wheat from Chaff
Book References
Periodical and Report References
Additional Bibliography
Appendix 1: New Zealand UFO Investigators
Appendix 2: UFO Organisations
Appendix 3: Internet Resources
Appendix 4: UFO Book Sources
Appendix 5: RNZAF/DSIR Investigation into Unidentified Flying Objects
Index
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