Kaikoura Lights - New Zealand Mystery

Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery Podcast · Mar 17, 2026 · 39m

December, 1978, senior Wellington air traffic controller John Cordy watched five unidentified radar targets appear over the Kaikoura coast. Solid returns. No flight plans. No radio contact. One of them sat on his screen for three hours. Days later, an Australian television crew who had heard about these strange lights boarded a routine cargo flight along the same stretch of coastline, hoping for background footage to help to tell this fascinating story. What they found in the skies over New Zealand was something else entirely. Objects paced the plane for fifteen minutes, moving at speeds the…