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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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(some have actually chased them); meteorologists have sighted them—and haven't been able to explain them. A noted "flying saucer" enthusiast, George Adamski, has stated in his book, "Flying Saucers Have Landed," that he saw a space ship land in the Arizona Desert. He claims that he approached it, and a figure alighted from it and spoke to him. Adamski published what he asserted were photographs of the "flying saucer." On February 15 of this year two schoolboys were reported to have experience, have reported "flying saucers." # Seen On Radar AT 5.25 a.m. on December 6, 1952, according to a report, an American Air Force lieutenant was watching the main radarscope of his B29. The bomber, of which he was radar officer, was over the Gulf of Mexico. Suddenly, the blip of an unknown object, followed by two other blips, appeared on his screen. The unknown's speed was 5240 miles an hour! The navigator had blips on his scope, too, and by the time the lieutenant had finished recalibrating his set, the pilot also had four unknown objects dead ahead on his scope. As a blip approached on the right a master-sergeant in the crew peered into the night—and saw a blue-lit object streak from front to rear of the bomber. A second group of blips appeared on all three scopes, followed by a third group. Bending over his screen, the radar officer saw two unidentified flying objects rocketing by on the right. He alerted the crew's staffsergeant, who saw two machines streak by, mere blurs of blue-white light. Up in the cockpit, the bomber's captain saw five of the "saucers" racing 40 miles behind, cutting across the aircraft's course. Suddenly they swerved and headed straight for the B29. At their terrific speed, they would close the gap in three seconds. Then, incredibly, the abruptly onrushing objects suddenly slowed to the bomber's speed.
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