New Zealand UFO Files 1990-2009

Summary

This declassified document from the New Zealand Defence Force contains UFO reports from 1990 to 2009. It includes testimonies from civilians, military personnel, and commercial aircraft crews, as well as correspondence from inventors requesting Air Force assistance. It also mentions an alleged UFO crash/retrieval in South Africa in 1989 and letters from ethnologists. The New Zealand Defence Force released these files to the public in December 2010 under the Official Information Act. The original files are restricted until 2080 for privacy reasons. Personal details of civilians who reported UFOs have been removed, but those of military personnel and government employees have not. The files include investigations, newspaper clippings, and letters from individuals claiming contact with extraterrestrials. Although the files are generally in chronological order, some documents may be duplicated or not strictly ordered by date. The redacted files are available in hard copy at the Defence Library, but not in digital format.