Archivist baffled by UFO on official photo

Radio New Zealand

A Navy Museum archivist who found an unidentified flying object on a 40-year-old photograph says it does not appear to be faked.

The official picture was taken from the HMNZS Royalist during Waitangi Day celebrations in 1965, and features a saucer-shaped object in the sky.

Archivist Paul Restall found the photo while sifting through old negatives.

He told Checkpoint the grain of the film seems to go right into the object, indicating that it was not added after developing.

Mr Restall says it is hard to tell how big or far away the object is.