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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.
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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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