41°17′S, 174°47′E · WELLINGTON · ARCHIVES NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand's declassified RNZAF UFO files.

In December 2010, the New Zealand Defence Force released 2,010 pages of previously classified UFO files (1952-2009) to Archives New Zealand. Centrepiece: the AIR 1080/6/897 series on the 1978 Kaikoura sightings. Released after a 14-month campaign by UFOCUS NZ. Source: archives.govt.nz.

§ Headlines · NZDF UFO Files, distilled

Release

2010

First tranche on 22 Dec; second tranche embargoed to 31 Mar 2011.

Pages

2 010

12 volumes (tranche 1) + 3 volumes (tranche 2).

Span

1952 — 2009 · 57 years of RNZAF correspondence.

Flagship

Kaikoura 1978 — AIR 1080/6/897 (still unexplained).

Custodian

Archives New Zealand · Wellington.

Trigger

14-month OIA campaign by UFOCUS NZ.

§ Records · Catalog gateways

Every official entry-point.

Cards below deep-link into the official catalogs and institutional pages. Where direct PDFs were reachable they're mirrored locally; everything else opens on the live source.