From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@brunnet.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:44:53 -0300
Fwd Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:27:29 -0400
Subject: Re: Information Wanted On New Zealand Sighting


 >Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:29:59 +1000
 >From: Glennys Mackay <glenmack@thehub.com.au>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
 >Subject: Re: Information Wanted On New Zealand Sighting

 >>From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@brunnet.net>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
 >>Subject: Re: Information Wanted On New Zealand Sighting
 >>Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:16:28 -0300

<snip>

 >>I believe that the sightings in question which were "explained"
 >>as a squid boat fishing fleet took place Dec. 21, 1978 and
 >>thereafter and were investigated in detail by Dr. Bruce Maccabee
 >>who went down under and talked to all the aircraft and radar
 >>witnesses and published in Applied Optics 18 (1979); 2527-28 and
 >>the Journal of Scientific Exploration 1.2 (1987) 149-190.

 >>Jerome Clark's excellent The UFO Book has a good summary with
 >>references (there are books) on pp415-418.

 >That was something that Robert Muldoon, Who was the Prime
 >Minister at that time "claimed", that the sightings were the
 >reflection of squid boats fishing off the coast of NZ?!!

 >How the hell can they be spot lights in the damn sky when
 >they are surposed to be using them for finding the fish??
 >Were they flying fishes? :)

<snip>

 >I have done a lot of home work at ground level with those
 >involved, I had 5 helicoptor pilots staying with me at the time
 >around 1978 and 1979 we used to sit and watch these craft even
 >through binoculars.

 >So I do not know who your friend Bruce MacCabee spoke to, but he
 >certainly did not speak to the witnesses.

<snip>

Obviously I didn't make myself clear. I didn't say that Dr.
Bruce Maccabee, an optical physicist, said the UFO sightings
were squid boats Just the opposite.

Bruce showed and published articles showing the UFOs were indeed
_not_ squid boats. I cited the references.

He talked to all the witnesses involved in this case.

The questioner wanted to know about a particluar case. I noted
which case it was. He should read Bruce's articles as I guess
Glennys needs to.

I think somebody owes me an apology.

Bruce discusses the case in my 1979 movie "UFOs Are Real" as
well as in print.

Let's get with it. The question wasn't about all NZ sightings.

Stan Friedman.