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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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C.R.I.F.O. AUGUST 5 1955 IS "SAUCER" SHOWDOWN NEAR? UNPRECEDENTED PEACE TALKS MAY HAVE EXTRATERRESTRIAL COERCION. C.R.I.F.O DOES NOT OPERATE A RUMOURMONGERY: IT PREFERS THE FACT-ROOTED STORY. HOWEVER, THERE ARE INSTANCES WHERE THE LINE SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION ARE TENUOUS SUCH IS THE STORY WE HAVE FROM GENEVA. OUR FIRST IMPULSE WAS TO REJECT THE ITEM, in toto, BUT WE RECONSIDERED OUR APPRAISAL UPON THE RECEIPT OF AN ADDITIONAL CLIPPING (1) WHICH NAMED THE SOURCE OF THE INFORMATION AS PROF. ALFRED NAHON OF LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND. Having no knowledge of Nahon's irresponsible reporting in the past, we felt reasonably safe in assuming that his details were in order, and, at once began connecting with it other pertinent evidence we had on file, all of which lends still more credence to the professor's assertions. On these premises, we feel duty-bound to relate the evidence on hand for your own evaluation. We quote, first, from the A.P. release, datelined Geneva, July 16th, 1955: "THE WORLD INTERPLANETARY ASSOCIATION disclosed today the secret reason the heads of government of the world's four major powers decided to have a meeting here next week. This is it: To discuss how to deal with beings from another planet, or planets, who have delivered a final warning to the world by destroying atomic plants in Britain (3) and Russia. The Association made this disclosure in a memorandum to the Big Four, signed by its President, Prof. Alfred Nahon of Lausanne. The Association's congress unanimously approved it last week, he said. The utilization of atomic energy - even for peaceful purposes - was about to cause the disintegration of the universe, the memo declared. The inhabitants of other planets realised the danger, and the only way to prevent the attacks from outer space was to abandon the atom. The memo called on the Big Four to tell the world the truth about aircraft from outer space, 'observed in all countries since 1945' in order to avoid 'stupid panic' when the facts finally became known." ## --hasty translation from the French, we learn that Nahon's information on the explosions and destruction of atomic centres in Russia and England, and the blackout of this news by the press, comes from a "good source". He says, "the one of which we are dealing mostly (for information) is an Italian diplomat of Rome ...(Ed.) We have the diplomat's name, but prefer withholding it). Nahon adds "... I have never said that the Big Four gathered to discuss the question of the UFO ... they gathered BECAUSE OF THE ACTION following these UFO's." Credit, Sam Feldman, Chicago ILL, H.G. Rovner, Philad. Pa. Editor, LE COURRIER INTERPLANETAIRE. (3) We know of several mysterious explosions over England which demand explanation (1) British Mag., FLYING SAUCER REVIEW, May/June issue, reports one over Hampstead Heath area, March 16, 1955. (2) See C.F.I.R.0. case 73. Harold T. Wilkins informs us, incident involved four blast bolts coming from four directions, one swinging in tight circle, after entering the Isles from Land's End from Atlantic. It then exploded violently on the coast of Eire, causing landslide. (3) C.S.I. (N.Z.) sends us clip on mysterious London explosions, July 6, quoting in part; "The explosion - a double bang - awakened people over 50-mile radius, rattling windows, setting off burglar alarms and alerting police and fire departments. "It made a rolling, thundery noise", said a Ministry spokesman, "which is not at all like a supersonic bang."
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