David Crockett

David Crockett was an Australian cameraman who, together with reporter Quentin Fogarty of Channel O Melbourne, participated in the flight documenting the Kaikoura Lights off the east coast of New Zealand's South Island on 30–31 December 1978. Using 16-mm colour film he recorded around thirty minutes of material showing bright luminous objects tracking the aircraft and objects reappearing at new positions.

• Australian cameraman
• Cooperation with reporter Quentin Fogarty of Channel O Melbourne
• Participation in the documentation flight on the Kaikoura Lights incident, 30–31 December 1978
• Recording on 16-mm colour film
• About thirty minutes of documented footage
• Footage shows luminous objects tracking the aircraft and reappearing at new positions
• Cooperation with pilots and Fogarty to secure the witness material

For the UAP timeline, Crockett is the cameraman who first secured the Kaikoura Lights in professional image quality — turning what would otherwise be a pure pilot/radar episode into a visually archived case that remains one of the best-documented UAP sightings in the southern hemisphere.