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When unidentified flying objects and mystery pre-Polynesian settlers in New Zealand dominate the headlines, it must be the silly season for news.
In the absence of political clashes and local-body meetings, the media go in search of summer holiday yarns and also provide a good diet of puzzle pages and mystery thrillers. As a consequence, UFOs and aliens are back on the agenda this week. New Zealand's UFO sightings have generally been of lights tracking across the skies. The most famous series was in 1978 when lights seen from aircraft were officially labelled as coming from squid boats, unburned meteors, Venus or trains and cars.
The greatest UFO debate centred on an incident in 1947 after an object crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. Sixty-five years later and, as a result of a wave of publicity around the incident in the 1970s, there are still conflicting views as to what it was. Officially it was an experimental high-altitude balloon. Non-believers think it was a space ship and that its occupants were captured. Another 10 years on, a witness came forward claiming to have seen alien corpses.....
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