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  "title": "Kaikōura lights: film, testimony and archive access",
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      "id": "K1",
      "title": "Archives New Zealand: Kaikōura Lights, 31 December 1978",
      "url": "https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivesnz/23623047260",
      "note": "Institutional description and a digitised record. The exhibit is not the complete flight investigation."
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      "note": "Explains the 2010 release of fifteen volumes covering 1952–2009. It is not the original 1978 investigation."
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