Unidentified flying objects

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-661-001/061

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 61 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: 1955

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-056

Description: Shows five different aeroplanes and one flying saucer flying above Christchurch (Harewood) airport The words '"Planes", No. 150' are written in blue coloured pencil on the back of the cartoon Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and white corrector on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 2003

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-

Reference: H-696-001/004

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Topics include new year resolutions and smoking withdrawal, extra-terrestrials, the threat made by the United States to make war on Iraq and the first day back at school. Quantity: 4 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: [ca 1984]

By: Amery, Colin L, active 1979-1988

Reference: MS-Papers-4073

Description: Highly personal account of UFO sightings off Kaikoura Coast in Jan 1979 and alleged cover up by government. General speculations, assertions concerning UFOs. Source of title - transcribed title Quantity: 2 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1954

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-006-1

Description: Shows two men from the year 2054 watching two other men building a tunnel. Everyone wears futuristic attire and devices that allow them to travel above the ground. A chain of flying saucers called 'Flying Saucer Carrying Co.' flies across the top of the cartoon. A sign on the tunnel reads 'Tunnel Road Construction Coy. Started Sept 2054 A.D.' The suggestion is that construction took so long to commence that by the time it did, people were not using tunnels anymore Another cartoon, A-386-006-2 appears on the verso Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Tom Mayne [in ink]; Recto - beneath image - From Tom Mayne, 901 Ferry Road, Sept 7 '54 [in blue coloured pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, blue coloured pencil and letratone on card, 234 x 287 mm

Date: 1959

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-182

Description: Shows three frames illustrating unrelated topics. The first frame is titled 'Miss Howard has secret admirer. The importance of seeing Mabel.' It shows Mabel Howard speaking on the telephone. The next frame shows an alien leaving a UFO to drink at a hotel, with the title 'Shades of Mr Adamski... but, Bert swears he saw this, about six the other night.' The final frame is titled 'Mr. Nash impressed by vigour of Japanese. (It is felt that Hon. Japanese will be equally impressed by vigour of Hon. Nash!!)' It shows Walter Nash dashing around Japan, clutching a long to do list Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and white corrector on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 1920-1979

From: [Ephemera of quarto size, timetables, and advertising relating to aviation, airline companies, flights, aeroplanes, aircraft, by New Zealanders or in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-AVIATION-1920/1979

Description: Includes: 1920: Union Theatres Ltd :The Sir Ross Smith flight; official souvenir. Jno Evans & Son Printing Co., 200 Castlereagh St.,Sydney. [Sydney], Union Theatres, [1920?] 1928: Marlborough Aero Club :1928 Tasman flight. Souvenir of departure of the Southern Cross, Blenheim to Sydney. "Express" Print, Blenheim. 1928 Star extra. Great flight ends. Tasman safely crossed. Southern Cross lands ahead of time. Wigram Aerodrome reached at 9.20 a.m. Tuesday September 11, 1928. 1930: Auckland Aero Club: Aerial pageant, Saturday April 12th [1930]. Programme 1933: Souvenir of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's Tasman flight. 1933. Booklet 1934: The first thrill of 1934 - fly with Ulm in the "Faith in Australia". Rongotai Aerodrome. ... January 6th and 7th [1934]. 1937: Great Britain. Royal Air Force :Eighteenth R.A.F flying display pageant. Hendon, Saturday, June 26th 1937. Souvenir programme. 1939: Cereal Foods NZ Limited :Wonder book of modern aircraft. [1939-1940] 1950s: Robertson Air Service Ltd, Hamilton and Te Kuiti; aerial topdressers, seeders and sprayers. [1950s?] 1951: Canterbury Aero Club :Royal New Zealand Aero Club Pageant, Christchurch International Airport, March 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 1951. Souvenir programme. 1953: Air race and quiz; games for all [ca 1953] 1954: From the Traffic Supt to all public authorities. [List of passengers on the last flying boat out of Wellington, 25 June 1954] 1957: TAI; fly T.A.I. to France in 48 hours (flying time), the fastest service by a new route. Auckland, Noumea, Darwin, Saigon, Karachi, Cairo, Paris [ca 1957] 1969: American Airlines Freight to central and eastern North American markets [Freighting from New Zealand and other countries. ca 1969]. Folded brochure 1973: Richard Pearse, New Zealand pioneer of aviation. Museum of Transport & Technology, Auckland, September 1973 1974: New Zealand Ministry of Transport. Know your aircraft [1974]. 1975: New Zealand National Air Pageant. Tauranga Aero Club (Inc), 1 March 1975. Souvenir programme Pioneers of New Zealand aviation; the Walsh Brothers Flying School 1910-1924. Published by the Museum of Transport & Technology, Auckland [ca 1975] Wellington Districts Aero Club. Flight training, aerial photography, scenic flights, air charter, air taxi [1975] 1976: Ministry of Transport Statistical information. Aerial work operations; helicopter operations, [1975-1976] 1977: Auckland Regional Authority: Official opening by the Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. R.D. Muldoon of the International Terminal, Auckland International Airport, 15 December, 1977 Capital Air. Capital Air interim timetable 21 November 1977-29 January 1978. Single sheet Searl National Space Research Consortium, Swallow Command. letter to Mrs V M Comer, Superintendent of Documents, Auckland re Flying saucers and Searl Effect generators [1977] 1978: Royal Aeronautical Society, New Zealand Division, Auckland Branch. Notice: Competition aerobatics - To Russia, with aeroplane! [Talk by Pam Collings, née Lock]. Air Centre Building, 22 June [1978]. Green flier 1979: New Zealand Ministry of Transport. Civil Aviation Division. Safety around helicopters. 1979 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, offset prints, on flyers and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: [ca 1978-1979]

From: Ballantyne, David Watt, 1924-1986 : Papers

Reference: 88-012-02/06

Description: Includes jottings, literary notes and newspaper clippings and articles about UFOs, ca 1978-1979, for proposed work Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1978-1979]

From: Ballantyne, David Watt, 1924-1986 : Papers

Reference: 88-012-02/05

Description: Notes and newspaper clippings and articles about UFOs for proposed work, `The Penfriend' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2006

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009685

Description: Shows large UFO stadiums coming to land in Auckland Central. People are running away in horror. Refers to the various plans for a new stadium in Auckland. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Various artists :[Entries in the Young Cartoonist Award. 2013]

By: Conaco, Marc, active 2013

Reference: DCDL-0025745

Description: Shows two figures from the Catholic church watching a large-scale conflagration and city's destruction by dragons and unicorns while they say "Rabid unicorns, rainbow-breathing dragons, a rise in alien abductions... we told them NOT to get married did we not?" Refers to the global issue of marriage equality. The cartoonist has explained that: 'To the Catholic extremists, granting marriage to persons that go against the traditional view would upset the order and balance of things.' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 9 October 2019

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Slane, Christopher, 1957-; New Zealand listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0040722

Description: Digital cartoon by Chris Slane published in the Listener. Shows two aliens standing over three surprised looking people, who are lying on the ground and looking upwards. One of the aliens is holding a ray gun and caption for the other reads: "Oh Great. Now we'll have to return in 300 years to express regret." In the background there is a spaceship and the Sky Tower and Waitemata Harbour in Auckland. Probably refers to UFO sightings on 31 March 2019 by a couple who were lying down on Karekare Beach and watching the stars. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1991

From: The Crawlspace Records Collection; popular music posters. 1980-2002.

By: Flying Nun Records

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-CR-1991-02

Description: Poster shows two white spaceships, one large and one small, against a dark background covered with a pattern of smaller spaceships delineated in pink. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on laminated poster. Physical Description: Screenprint on poster, 553 x 386 mm (laminated) Provenance: Donated by Crawlspace Records in 2003.

Date: 2002

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-221

Description: Shows a farmer taking dynamite out of a box and throwing it at a monster emerging from a UFO. A police man looking at his notes is confirming that there are hazardous substances and new organisms. Extended Title - Right, these are hazardous substances & that's a new organism. Have a nice day. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2009

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0012945

Description: The cartoon shows a moving company loading up a van with 'sightings' of UFOs that are being moved into storage after the closing of the British UFO Investigation Unit. Refers to the news that the British Ministry of Defence has closed its UFO investigation unit. A hotline and email address for the public to report strange sights in the skies to the military were shut down on December 1, 2009. The MoD said it had received thousands of reports of UFOs over more than 50 years, but none revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the UK or substantial proof of the existence of extra-terrestrials. The MoD said it had received thousands of reports of UFOs over more than 50 years, but none revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the UK or substantial proof of the existence of extra-terrestrials. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0007518

Description: Shows the Beehive lurching to the left as a spaceship named 'SFO' hovers over it. Play on 'SFO' (Serious Fraud Office) and 'UFO' (Unidentified Flying Object). Refers to the SFO investigating Winston Peters, leader of New Zealand First, for possible fraud over the non declaration of donations made to his party. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016428

Description: A man reads a newspaper report saying 'UFO report released' and his small son who is reading over his shoulder wonders why 'Santa doesn't get a mention'. Context; thousands of secret reports on New Zealand UFO sightings have been released, detailing mysterious unexplained sightings from the public and military personnel. The files include every witness account of unidentified flying objects reported to authorities since early 1952, including the infamous 1978 Kaikoura mystery. The files had been held by Archives New Zealand, which was to make them available in February after requests from the public, but the Defence Force stepped in saying it needed to remove personal identification to comply with the Privacy Act. (Press 22 December 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0010211

Description: Shows a view of the globe shrouded in cloud that allows glimpses of land below. A voice through the cloud wonders if they heard something. An unidentified flying object breathes a sigh of relief 'Phew!' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DX-014-501

Description: An alien asks a cow for directions to Mystery Creek. Refers to the agricultural exhibition which is held at Mystery Creek (near Hamilton) each year. Extended Title - Fieldays Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2007

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

Reference: DCDL-0003781

Description: A man and his wife sit on a park bench. They are both reading newspapers. As the woman tells her husband that there have been a lot more UFO sightings recently a space ship arrives, a little extraterrestrial jumps onto the park bench with her, another extraterrestrial takes a photograph of them, and the spaceship disappears. Thw woman is scared stiff but her husband reads on, oblivious. Refers to the fact that a rise in UFO sightings in New Zealand has prompted UFO researchers to design a system for reporting alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).