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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.
“United Press”10 pages
Maurice LEBRUN, Member of the Marine Academy, 12 Place Joffre, Paris VIIe. 7th November,1955. The Minister of Civil Aviation, Wellington. Re: Saucer Enquiry. Dear Sirs, Under this heading the "Daily Mail" of Saturday the 5th November informed its readers that you had started an enquiry into the subject of a flying saucer stated to have been seen and travelling at a speed of 800 m.p.h. I have studied this question. The British Airforce declared that my hypotheses were interesting. These were embodied in a paper which some months ago I read before my colleagues of the Marine Academy at Paris. I attach a copy and hope that its perusal will be of interest to you. Yours faithfully, /sgd/ M. Lebrun. H . O . T . C . + H .
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