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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.
“Christchurch”32 pages
A NEW ZEALAND organisation with headquarters at Onehunga for nearly three years has been engaged on a bizarre investigation that would have warmed the heart of Jules Verne. The question it seeks to answer is: Do "flying saucers" visit us from distant worlds? Since October, 1952, Civilian Saucer Investigation (N.Z.) has collected, collated and disseminated reports from all parts of the world on unidentified flying objects in the sky. Having made itself familiar with the many theories advanced to explain the "saucers," and having made research For 10 seconds they kept pace behind it; then they pulled off to one side. At the same moment the captain saw a huge half-inch. bilip on the scope. Still moving at more than 5000 m.p.h. the smaller object merged with the large. "machine." Instantly the huge bin moved across the scone. quickly of a mile distant at an estimated height of 300 to 400 feet. The outside pair were wobbling like a top losing spin from the moment when first sighted, he said. Suddenly they stood on their edges and literally stweaked upwards with terrific speed, and disappeared. Peters farm. The remaining centre disc now brightened up considerably and It was later discovered that another man, Mr Alex Ingram, also saw them. He lived five miles away. ## Blue Globe CTVILIAN Saucer Investigation has an account of this on re- has an account of this on record. The organisation also investigated the claims of Dunedin woman who said she saw a blue globe-shaped object in the sky six days after the Nelson sighting. At 8,35 p.m. she saw a blue, globe-shaped object overhead. It was some time, she said, before she realised it was not a star or anything else she had ever seen. But she was, nevertheless, able to study it for about 20 seconds before it moved southward at great speed, eventually disaparting behind the St. Clair cliffs. For years, reports have been received from all parts of the globe about strange sky sightings. Some indeed take a bit of swallowing. This one, for instance, re from France: A metal worker, Maxus Dew who lived in a cottage near the 1
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