Documents / Document

NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files

NZDF / RNZAF via Internet Archive · 2010-12 · 445 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This is a New Zealand Defence Force public release of RNZAF file AIR 39/3/3, "Flying Saucers," which covers 1952 to 1955 and was declassified in September 2010 under the Official Information Act. It collects sighting reports from the public and military personnel, press clippings, and a table of 1952 sightings. It also holds Carter Observatory opinions attributing some reports to meteors. A large part covers the inquiry into lights seen from National Airways Corporation Flight 108 on 31 October 1955, which the RNZAF could not fully explain as Venus.

  • p. 41 …Mouth of Mokau River: Lat. 38°42'8 Long. 174°39'8 Venus: Declination…
  • p. 46 …My daughter and I went in my car to the mouth of the Mokau River at…
  • p. 85 …It changed colour from white-yellow-orange(gold) to red. It did not appear as a…
  • p. 147 …It changed colour from white-yellow-orange (gold) to red. It did not appear to have…
  • p. 159 …On Sept, 20th, Connelly reported a bright red and green object flying low and soundlessly over…
  • p. 244 …Wallace and her daughter, reported seeing a strange oval-shaped disc, orange red in colour, performing…
  • p. 418 …By introducing molecules raised air into a partial vacuum jar three feet high, orange red were…

Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.

Part 1 Copy/4 of 36

# NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE FORCE

# UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO) FILES COPIES FOR RELEASE TO THE PUBLIC

File Number: AIR 39/3/3 Volume 1 - Parts 1 and 2

File Title: Flying Saucers

File Timespan: Opened: 1952 - Closed 1955

File Declassified: September 2010

Location of Original File: Held at Archives New Zealand

Access to Original File: Restricted until 2025

File Contains: Reports of sightings from members of the public and military personnel, numerous press clippings, copies of the Civilian Saucer Investigation Committee (NZ) newsletters and magazines. Sighting investigation reports and opinions from other interested Government departments.

Cited by

About this file

Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 445 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.