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NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files
NZDF / RNZAF via Internet Archive · 2010-12 · 445 pages · text by 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.
“Sea”47 pages
- p. 12 …He jettisoned his long-range tanks and did diving turns out to sea. He flattened out…
- p. 19 …He then did diving turns out to sea and flattened out at 4000ft, heading north-north…
- p. 41 …From the above data, Venus would set for an observer at sea level, at 8.25…
- p. 46 …when it disappeared on the horizon at sea level. As the red colour was brighter than…
- p. 77 …sea level with no refraction, Z.D. = $ 9 0^{\circ} 0 0^{\prime} $
(b) At sea…
- p. 94 …Screen for SEA '
- p. 100 …table for the following factors:-
(a) At sea level with no refraction, $ \mathbf{Z}.\mathbf{D…
- p. 104 …THEY
SAW LIGHT WELL OUT TO SEA. AT FIRST IT APPEARED LIKE A STAR
AND THEN…
- p. 107 …table for the following factors:-
(a) At sea level with no refraction, $ \mathrm{Z.D.}=9…
- p. 130 …world's land masses and the seven seas have been
THERE is scope for intriguing contemplation…
- p. 150 …Azimuth 246 $ ^{\circ} $ T, Altitude -0.39 at sea level.
Mr. I.L. Thomsen,Director of…
- p. 170 …An excellent little printed UFO magazine.)
# A VETERAN SEA CAPTAIN REPORTS
## "I SIGHTED A FLYING SAUCER…
- p. 171 …At that time the ship was 50 sea-miles east of Ambrose lightship, the spot where…
- p. 182 …Mountbatten is one of the subscribers. (First Sea Lord).
No news for a long time from…
- p. 189 # Strange Object Seen
Hovering Over Sea
By Two Dunedin Men
Two Dunedin men may have been…
- p. 192 …a subsequent report from a ship at sea in the same vicinity. This described what was…
- p. 202 …They buzzed Bloomington, Indiana on September 7, 1877, ships in the Yellow Sea in 1893, and…
- p. 203 …to exist at the bottom of the sea.
The Uranides, I think, have been examining the…
- p. 212 …The pilot said after landing that the two objects were much faster than his Sea Fury…
- p. 215 …And had been flicked up by a sea gull and then drifted. It made no sound…
- p. 217 …Our observer does not believe these government men tossed the object in the sea, and nor…
- p. 218 …Our observer does not believe these government men tossed object in the sea, and nor do…
- p. 242 …Due west of Whenuapai takes you out to sea off the Muruwai coast-line.
## May 24th…
- p. 243 …smoothly in an easterly direction out to sea. This report was made to Mr Metcalf, President…
- p. 244 …hovering, shortly, it darted off at high speed out to sea and then as suddenly returned…
- p. 251 …watched a strange moving light out to sea off the coast of Muruwai Beach. The light…
- p. 262 …The shaded area in the diagram shows pieces of the Comet airliner recovered from the sea…
- p. 265 …northwards, high in the sky above the sea.
"The movement of the object seemed similar to…
- p. 266 …The object, which he took to be a meteor, lit up the sea for a considerable…
- p. 267 …hills, must have been out over the sea.
He added that the Wadestown man who had…
- p. 295 …Supply at sea it was reported at 6.10 p.m. on February 28, 1904, that…
- p. 307 …sound of its striking the earth or sea was heard, -- a loud and lengthened noise, to…
- p. 314 …his 1931 solo crossing of the Tasman Sea from Auckland to Sydney via Norfolk and Lord…
- p. 315 …under the title " Alone over the Tasman Sea "starting on page 299 line 11.
Please let…
- p. 331 …It could not have been a plane, as the wind was blowing in off the sea…
- p. 336 …engine-driver noticed a light out to sea. It was moving up and down and advancing…
- p. 366 …about 20 feet above the sea, parallel with the Llandovery Castle, and travelling in the same…
- p. 368 …Schofield, aboard a navy supply vessel at sea. Shortly after six o'clock on the morning…
- p. 391 …It was well out at sea opposite Whenuapai immediately to the north of Auckland, and soon…
- p. 392 …From its course it appeared to have some over the city from the sea off St…
- p. 393 …moving across the sky towards the open sea. They changed colour from red to green while…
- p. 399 …The Taeiri district would be an obvious place for a sea-borne landing.
43. In general…
- p. 407 # RUSSIAN SUBMARINES IN NORTH SEA MANOEUVRES
New Zealand Press Association—Copyright.
LONDON, January 5 (Rec. 7…
- p. 412 …Hovered Nil Descended and moved out to sea
New Brighton 29.10.52 9 pm One…
- p. 430 …The lights, he said, appeared to be moving across the sky towards the open sea. They…
- p. 433 …The object was well out at sea, opposite Whenuapai, and soon disappeared silently.
A man and…
- p. 436 …The object was well out at sea, opposite Whenuapai, and soon, disappeared silently.
A man and…
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## SUBJECT:
## Speedy Object In Sky
Sir,—It was very interesting to read the opinion that the object observed by the pilot of a N.A.C. aircraft recently was the planet Venus. I had no idea that Venus travelled at such speed, but now that I do know, it explains something that I and four others saw at Palliser Bay.
One Sunday afternoon at about 4.30 our attention was drawn to a round very bright object approaching at a great height and at very great speed. It had no wings and could not be heard. It was travelling in a north-easterly direction and after it had passed right overhead it came round in a half-circle and disappeared toward the west. We thought that it must have been a meteorological balloon gone mad. Now, of course, the answer is obvious; it was Venus.
NOT A FLYING SAUCER. Upper Hutt.
Evening Post 8/11/55
# Venus Back In Running As Mystery Light
After careful investigation the Royal New Zealand Air Force concludes that the strange light seen from a National Airways Corporation aircraft could have been Venus, but cannot explain the apparent movement of the light, according to a report released last night by the Acting Minister of Defence (Mr. Halstead).
The report said that the strange light was seen low in the western sky between 8.08pm and 8.11pm on Monday, Oct. 31. Venus could have been observed in the approximate position of the light when it was first sighted from the aircraft flying at 8000 feet between Wanganui and Auckland.
"Since the captain of the aircraft (Captain W. T. Rainbow) states that the direction of flight of the aircraft was not altered during the time the light was in sight, the R.N.Z.A.F. cannot explain the apparent movement of the light or establish definitely that it was Venus," says the report. "The occulting or apparent flashing of the light could be caused by the presence of cloud between the light and the moving aircraft.
"It is common for planets low in the sky to scintillate. At 8000 feet, in position 38 degrees south 175 degrees east (the approximate position of the aircraft when the light was seen) the setting time for Venus on October 81 was 8.19pm."
The report also makes brief mention of vapour trails seen in the sky on the same evening. They were caused by Vampire aircraft from Ohakea carrying out high-level night cross-country exercises.
R. RELEASE NO. M15755.
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