RNZAF Base Ohakea, New Zealand: Canberra pilot watches flashing light pace his aircraft
At 7:01 p.m. on March 26, 1963, RNZAF Flying Officer J. S. Hosie, flying a Canberra at 18,000 feet about 40 miles northeast of RNZAF Base Ohakea, watched a rapidly flashing white light move alongside at about his speed for a minute.
Background
Flying Officer J. S. Hosie of the Royal New Zealand Air Force was piloting a Canberra light bomber at 18,000 feet about 40 miles northeast of RNZAF Base Ohakea, near Bulls, when he saw a rapidly flashing white light at his 10 o'clock position, slightly above the aircraft and moving at about the same speed of 435 to 460 mph. The light tracked eastward while the Canberra held a 60-degree true course; Hosie watched it for about a minute and noted two bright white flashes per second with no change in intensity. There was no radio interference, and the object appeared to be beyond the range of the ground radar at Wellington. Later checks confirmed that no other aircraft were in the area; no interception was ordered because the Canberra had to continue its scheduled exercise. An official sighting report was filed on April 3, 1963. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.