Case file · Close encounter
Elizabeth Moreland, Blenheim
A farmer's wife going to milk the cows before dawn said a lit craft landed in her paddock and she saw two men in silvery suits inside.
1959 CE · -41.52, 173.95 · status: account
The account
Early on 13 July 1959 Elizabeth Moreland, near Blenheim, saw a green glow, then a saucer with two rows of jets that hovered over the field; through a transparent dome she saw two figures. Afterwards the paddock was said to have a circle where the grass was flattened. It is New Zealand's best-known close encounter.
The sceptical view
A single-witness account; no lasting physical evidence was analysed.