Yes, indeed. TheEye is taking a break from working on The Project That Just Won’t Die and needs some form of distraction.

Helpfully, the New Zealand government has just made public 2,000 pages of UFO eyewitness accounts dating back to 1952 and that should do the trick quite nicely. Local newspaper The Dominion Post has scanned the documents and has made them available online.

Among the accounts of alien encounters and strange lights in the sky is one of New Zealand’s most famous UFO mystery: the Dec 1978 Kaikoura Lights. But was it aliens? The Defence Ministry at the time attributed it to “lights from squid boats reflected off clouds, unburned meteors, or lights from the planet Venus or trains and cars” which just about covers every one of the boring possibilities.

TheEye has only read the first few reports, but is so far drawing a blank on any anal probing anecdotes….just in case anyone was wondering.