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Paul Brennan takes us on a thought-provoking, nostalgic, and ultimately personal journey into the world of UFOs starting with a tinfoil hat and childhood memories of Gerry Anderson’s sci-fi series UFO. Paul reflects on both international and local unexplained aerial phenomena, from the now-famous Commander Fravor encounter to bizarre orb sightings around the world. The heart of the story, however, lies in New Zealand’s own Kaikōura Lights incident of 1978—complete with radar confirmation, pilot testimony, and mysterious footage analysed using modern imaging tools. Brennan ties this into a more recent sighting of his own during a jog near Wellington’s Pencarrow lighthouse, bringing the abstract very much into the personal.

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