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NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files

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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.

  • p. 11 …I have never seen a planet move like that. My co-pilot (First Officer S G…
  • p. 22 …I can only add if anyone believes my something they have never seen then here's…
  • p. 50 …they have landed, someplace, but I have never been able to track it down, but as…
  • p. 51 …the space people? A. It was not. Never deliberate on their part, but our aggression and…
  • p. 52 …Well I was taken pretty close to one other planet like that of Venus but never…
  • p. 53 …to class-room, for graduation which is never attained because eternity is eternity. Do they have…
  • p. 62 …lot on this great took it has never been strong yet I gave my standing son…
  • p. 72 …I never read who-dunnits, and I shun thrillers like poison; I suppose I have to…
  • p. 91 …such things for personal files but have never had copies made. I can see the value…
  • p. 97 …g) No peculiarities except that I have never observed its like before. (h) Solid in appearance…
  • p. 126 …moment. "In all my flying I've never seen anything 'like it," he said today. Air…
  • p. 137 …Someplace, but I have never been able to track it down, but as far as I…
  • p. 138 …the space people? A. It was not. Never deliberate on their part, but our aggression and…
  • p. 139 …Well I was taken pretty close to one other planet like that of Venus but never…
  • p. 140 …to class-room, for graduation which is never attained because eternity is eternity. Q. Do they…
  • p. 145 …we are making them," stated Mr. Quarles. Never in the history of our subject have I…
  • p. 151 …I have never said that the Big Four gathered to discuss the question of the UFO…
  • p. 152 …The real issues at Geneva are not yet known, and may never be, but we are…
  • p. 157 …a subjective reason why more stories have never been related, especially so, where PROMINENT PEOPLE are…
  • p. 158 …Wallace's mother, whom we later interviewed, claimed that her son had never been so frightened…
  • p. 167 …the phenomenon of Horseheads, N.Y., may never be known. ## ******* ## THE SWEDISH GHOST ROCKETS by S…
  • p. 172 …ALTHOUGH THE STORY WAS WIDELY REPORTED, IT WAS NEVER PUBLISHED IN FULL OUTSIDE SCANDINAVIA. NOW Flying…
  • p. 174 …I was never more than three or four minutes walk from the girls, and I reckon…
  • p. 176 …to time in the area, but they never heard of them flying at night. "What I…
  • p. 183 …He could not say whether or not it might be a meteor as he had never…
  • p. 201 …Besides, you never know what they could do to you . . . There is no material we know…
  • p. 213 …Church-because of the probability that they never contracted "original sin." ## Flying Discs Sir,—Periodically, Mr…
  • p. 216 …phenomena, there are many individuals who have never reported "sightings" of their own or knowledge. Hope…
  • p. 222 …France, never to be outdone, when it comes to autumn tourist attractions, has also had its…
  • p. 223 …It is necessary for me to state here that I would never falsely colour or manufacture…
  • p. 224 …They said this because they had never seen a modern deep-water diving suit. What they…
  • p. 231 …first reports were immediately followed by a never-ending chain of fantastic stories mostly created by…
  • p. 242 …I do not know what it was, I have never seen such an object before. President…
  • p. 248 …We have never heard of & find it difficult to imagine any meteors or aurorae presenting such…
  • p. 249 …He says that he and his companions never thought of flying saucers, being sure that it…
  • p. 254 …Civil Aviation Dept for some years, but never with the openness and seriousness of these last…
  • p. 256 # ore Observers Confirm # "NORTHERN ADVOCATE" # Seeing Strange Object 凯6 NOV 195本 "I HAVE never seen anything…
  • p. 257 …the man and his family. "I have never seen anything like it in my life," he…
  • p. 263 …or Martians, they reiterate that astronomers have never made any observations which could indicate a high…
  • p. 271 …With this weight of evidence you could well ask why saucers have never been, officially accepted…
  • p. 272 …chances are greater—a planet we have never even heard of. But wherever they come from…
  • p. 273 …I have never seen a saucer—but at least I have seen Mars! Vow the first…
  • p. 280 Acura shall call the existing currency All Min the Prairie neverer less len Qian FILE. for…
  • p. 286 …The world may never know, although he definitely has had a hand in the disk project…
  • p. 302 …observing of evidences, while those who have never seen a flying saucer make a show by…
  • p. 306 …In 18 years of flying I have never seen anything like it. If it had been…
  • p. 307 …and not forgetting those very important ones never to be forgotten sightings. We sincerely hope you…
  • p. 308 …likes light reading as well, but can never find the time now, so great is the…
  • p. 320 …Another official said that the Air Force had never accepted this theory. By classifying sightings as…
  • p. 321 …I never saw it happen before. If the acceleration explanation is true, then the speeds involved…
  • p. 324 …The Air Force has never denied that such a possibility exists. Some of the personnel believe…
  • p. 332 …more closely, I am sure they would never be so keen to rashly debunk it. Right…
  • p. 356 …These have never been confused with flying saucers as some sources of information contend. Recent events…
  • p. 367 …happenings in the sky that science had never been able satisfactorily to explain. Unger, beginning in…
  • p. 373 …Forefathers, the great majority of their ranks never dreamed of or envisaged that which is ordinary…
  • p. 401 …nuclli open to doubt because there have never been reports of them from sailors, astronomers and…
  • p. 416 …to bright red. "I wish I had never seen it," he said. "It's too fantastic…
  • p. 436 …In spite of all the flying saucer reports all over the world, science has never been…
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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