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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.

  • p. 10 …They passed over Christchurch about 1.30 p.m. As the aircraft moved on, they left…
  • p. 24 25 NOV 1955 # AIR DEPARTMENT. CHRISTCHURCH, N.W.4. 23rd November, 1955. The Director of Civil…
  • p. 25 …2 R.D. , CHRISTCHURCH. The Regional Superintendent, Civil Aviation Administration, CHRISTCHURCH AIRPORT. Dear Sir, The following…
  • p. 36 …12168 0182/50652 90/12165 17/16399 CHRISTCHURCH/AUCKLAND: 67/39485 CA 90/34627 CA WELLINGTON…
  • p. 165 …It was also seen by Palmerston North and Christchurch residents in N.Z. about that time…
  • p. 186 …which he witnessed from his home in Christchurch at 10.21 p.m. on the 20th…
  • p. 211 …The "Star-Sun" reporter and his wife were travelling by car towards Christchurch at 3.46…
  • p. 219 …Coutts Island to the back of the Christchurch Airport and though the cloud bank was about…
  • p. 226 …Carter had reported the incident to the Christchurch, N.Z., Press, and later decided to write…
  • p. 255 …had the pleasure of meeting for the first time, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin Representatives, Branch leaders…
  • p. 266 …It made a whizzing noise like a spinning top, they said. # MYSTERIOUS LIGHT IN SKY CHRISTCHURCH…
  • p. 299 …REPRESENTATIVES Two further representatives have been appointed in two southern cities, Christchurch and Dunedin. Representatives are…
  • p. 307 …Secretary 55 Tedder Avenue Christchurch E.3. ## WAS IT A METEOR? ## PERHAPS ONE DAY WE WILL…
  • p. 312 …received two other reports around this time one from a lady in Christchurch and another from…
  • p. 313 …August 25th Christchurch 6.40 p.m. fast moving strange light horizon tal course, in view…
  • p. 314 ## FLYING SAUCERS PAGE 18 November 17th Christchurch 11p.m. two further observers of fast m ing…
  • p. 332 …8.30 Palmerston North, Wellington, and Christchurch. A bright object, reported by many to be round…
  • p. 333 …March 18, Christchurch. Dr C.D. Ellyet, Senior Lecturer in physics at Canterbury University College, claims…
  • p. 359 …Sam Rix, Tauranga; Miss Ethne Hamber, Christchurch; Miss V.E.J.Allan, Dunedin; Dr.Benjamin D…
  • p. 393 …A passenger on the Express from Christchurch saw an unusual light in the sky near Camara…
  • p. 394 …Southland, North Otago, the West Coast and Christchurch. Some people who said they had seen it…
  • p. 396 …was travelling with his son from Christchurch to Wellington on the Saturday night when they saw…
  • p. 397 …The Christchurch observers given an apparent size of half a crown indicating a height of 6000…
  • p. 398 …Nelson Yellow/White 10.30? Cheviot? Blue Green Christchurch Blue S. Hissing Camara Blue 11.8…
  • p. 400 …9 17 minutes Christchurch/New Brighton 29.10.52 9 p.m. 1 Taradale, Napier 30…
  • p. 412 …Cigar South Nil GREEN LIGHT. Moving swiftly. Christchurch 13.10.52 Nil One 5 secs Starline…
  • p. 413 …minutes Saucer Nil Nil Redlights around lights Christchurch 3.11.52 1115 pm Two one minute…
  • p. 414 …Christchurch 6.12.52 1015 pm One 30 secs Disc South Hissing Blue in colour Ryeburn…
  • p. 418 …Williamson, has written to the "Evening Post" to say that the "flying saucer" seen in Christchurch…
  • p. 421 # BLUE DISC THAT HISSED South-Bound 'Saucer' Seen At Three Points PEOPLE in Christchurch, Kyeburn, and…
  • p. 428 …Otago, from the West Coast and from Christchurch, among others. Some people, who said they had…
  • p. 436 …Auckland astronomers and meter- ## Riccarton Run Confused By CHRISTCHURCH, November unsettled nature of the weather heavy…
THE PRESIDENT OF CIVILIAN SAUCER INVESTIGATION,Mr H.H. Fulton, points out the flight path of mysterious blue objects reported to have flown the length of the South Island on the night of December 6,1952. On the same night, similar objects were report-

The little robot men ran toward the "saucer". As Dewilde gathers his courage to run after them, a raft from the "saucer" struck him in the face, temporarily paralysing him The men entered the "saucer through a trap-door and the "saucer disappeared in the darkness.

A bigger surprise was a "lying saucer" sitting on the rails only 50 yards away.

He was dumfounded to see that the "men" were only t. ) feet high, with their head's encased in a transparent turret. And they had no arms!

At the time, he reported that at 2.20 a.m. he saw unusual lights in the sky. Quickly getting his 35-millimetre camera, and fitting a telephoto lens, he snapped a photograph of three disc-like objects, hovering in close line formation about a quarter

He ran inside and saw two men between the railway lines. He thought they might be burglars or dynamiters, and he ran forward, shining his torch.

DO "flying saucers" really exist?... New Zealander K. M. Gibbons, of Blenheim, claims actually to have taken a photograph of one, sighted by him at Nelson early in the morning of September 9,1954.

climbed a hill in Lancashire to photograph birds. They set their camera to infinity and directed it at a lake two miles distant. They said they saw a "flying saucer" land, and their subsequent photographs and sketches are claimed to have matched the photographs Adamski published. Since 1947 many thousands of observations of strange airborne objects from every part of the world's land masses and the seven seas have been

THERE is scope for intriguing contemplation in reports on "flying saucers," or whatever we like to call these objects people have seen in the sky. It is on re

away. However sceptical we may be of these things, it is a fact-admitted by scientific experts—that their explanation lies in no known natural phenomena. But that, of course, is not by any means another way of saying they are controlled vehicles from outer space.

# Amazing Reports

To most laymen, the idea of "flying saucers" being space ships from other worlds is nothing much more than a fascinating subject for contemplation. But to some people—Civilian Saucer Investigation members are among them—"saucers" are something more than mere fantasy. To them, the strange objects reported in our skies from time to time are something that has got to be explained

The organisation sees significance in the fact that Government-sponsored investigating agencies, in the United States and Canada particularly, after five years' research by their leading scientific brains, aided by, all modern mechanical instruments, have failed to find a natural phenomena explanation that can match the reported facts and so explain them away.

FOR this reason, the organisation believes there is on record to-day sufficient powerful evidence to support the existence of real strange-shaped craft frequenting earth's skies with flight characteristics and capabilities far beyond our most advanced designs and comprehensions.

phenomena explanation can account for, or satisfactorily explain away the hundreds of well authenticated reports by qualified witnesses, supported by radar, theodolite, telescope, camera (still and movie, taken in broad daylight) and other mechanical aids to aerial material detection.

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