Forrest noticed the object was hovering when it was above the yard, something he knew was impossible for an aircraft. A Pilot’s Fear of Flying An Air Accident and a Childhood Dream Trigger Memories of Contact with ‘Ant People’ Suzy Hansen © 2016 ‘When I started flying airplanes at the age of 15, I had the feeling I had done this before - this is not at all strange to me - it’s very familiar.’ Forrest Richards, retired pilot   A Sudden Fear of flying  In 1991, Forrest Richards, Boeing 737 pilot for United Airlines, USA, was a man facing a dilemma.  At what turned out to be a critical turning point in his life, he developed a fear of flying. ‘It came on suddenly.  At the time, I had been employed for two years as a line check airman training new pilots to

1977-79: a UFO 'flap' in New Zealand, and the spooky Waimata Valley became a veritable UFO sighting hot-spot. The Waimata Valley UFO Encounters: The Emergence of New Zealand’s First “Abduction” Experiences Suzy Hansen © 2017 ‘What’s going on in the sky around Gisborne? Why have there been so many UFO sightings here in the past month – the heaviest spate recorded in New Zealand?’  - Gisborne Herald, Sat. Dec 17, 1977 Background: 1977-79 heralded a time of intense UFO sightings around the North Island city of Gisborne, New Zealand, throughout the remote rural areas of the East Coast and Poverty Bay regions nearby, and in particular, in the now infamous and somewhat spooky Waimata Valley, approximately twelve kilometres northwest of Gisborne – that became a veritable UFO hot-spot.  These events became known as the ‘Gisborne UFO flap’, however the whole of New Zealand was literally engulfed