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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.
“The Advance”22 pages
# POLICY-AIMS-OBJECTS # Civilian Saucer Investigation (N.Z.) P.O. Box 1914, Auckland, New Zealand. CHANGE OF POLICY AND BROADENING OF AIMS AND OBJECTS AS APPROVED IN COMMITTEE, 6th MAY, 1954, AT C.S.I. HEADQUARTERS, 1 NISSAN PLACE, ONEHUNGA, S.E.5, AUCKLAND. Because of the rapidly developing picture more than strongly favouring the presence of real "Unidentified Flying Objects" in our skies, C.S.I. believed that best purpose would now be served by opening the organisation to the public at large wishing to join. This would permit the promulgation or broadcast of information on a far wider scale. C.S.I.'s Aims & Objects when established on the 12th October, 1952, were: (1) To file all reports of "Unidentified Flying Objects", these reports would receive sincere and unbiased investigation and would be kept confidential if requested by informant. (2) To correspond and affiliate with kindred bodies abroad so that information could be exchanged and greater knowledge obtained. (3) To try and establish the true nature of the mystery objects, their purpose and composition. If the objects were found to be intelligently guided and/or piloted craft, efforts would be made to effect contact. With effect 6th May, 1954, Our Aims & Objects were so broadened to include: (4) To pass on via lectures, published papers, magazines and all means at our disposal, information recorded about these mysterious objects frequenting earth skies. (5) Information would be authenticated as far as possible and classified as to reliability. Every effort would be made to present the subject on a sensible level so as not to promote fear, alarm or revulsion. (6) To keep ourselves well informed of the development of all modern aids to visual material detection and improved techniques in rocket flight, preparations for interplanetary exploration and astronomical data complimentary to the above.
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