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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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NEEDLESS FOR CRIFO to offer its interpretation of the proceedings at Geneva, for at this writing the trend is nebulous, premature and deplete of the facts. However, the real trend appears to have been established before Geneva. Looking back into the potpourri of events in recent months, we have noted the build-up of a new East-West relationship, one in which not only the DEEDS OF PEACEFUL INTENTIONS are manifest, but with the ungrudging handshake and wooing smile of visiting dignitaries. It is in these gestures that we find our DOUBLE ENTENDRE, and, our suspicions for the fear-state which may have coerced the heads of government into a new and more cordial behaviour. ## THE CONTAGION OF FEAR. Then came the Geneva Conference, seeming almost too precipitant. Sparked by the Nahon report, we felt even more convinced that a CONTAGION OF FEAR, spreading steadily behind the scenes, did have the precipitant influence, or not to be discounted in the light of recent developments, that some new incident occurred forcing the whole issue into a state of crisis! Even disregarding the "state of crisis" hypothesis, we still find credulity in the belief that the meeting of the Big Four may have served more than one good purpose, and we cite, (1) closed-door discussion of UFO problems, which at any time may precipitate into a world crisis. (2) concurrent and open discussion of East-West differences, which if effected, would mean a world of peaceful co-existence, and the necessary unified front in meeting any new crisis. All in all, we must account in some way for the sudden warmth of diplomacy and the savior faire of the dignitary, while still fresh in the mind are the yesterdays of sabre-rattling and the blood bath of Korea. The real issues at Geneva are not yet known, and may never be, but we are certain that away from the podium, panels were held in secrecy. One sundry note, touching on the theme of secrecy, comes from Eddy Gilmore of A.P. (5). In his report of July 21, he played up the "black snow" which swirled down over a wide area around the headquarters of the U.S. delegation. He assures us, however, that the snow has nothing more than ashes of secret papers being burned by security men ... (5) Credit H.G. Rovner, Philadelphia, Pa. In the July issue of ORBIT, we emphasised the world concern over the UFO. This factor alone, should be sufficient reason to behoove nations to a unified course of action, but we have on hand OTHER information, dating back, which shows evidence of a HIGH LEVEL CONCERN, and we believe that such, although significant in itself, may also have had some bearing on Geneva. Possibly because of tight security in diplomatic circles, little in the way of newsbits seep out publicly, but some of the evidence we know has already made the circuit and needs only review. For instance, Dorothy Kilgallen, on February 15th, 1954, gave bold-face type to this report: "Flying Saucers are regarded as of such vital importance that they will be the subject of a special hush-hush meeting of world Military heads next summer." When the summer of 1954 arrived, we heard nothing more of this meeting, but we learned that the real purpose of Winston Churchill's visit to the U.S. that summer went BEYOND the announced discussion of Asian affairs. This mission, we are told, was on the UFO! Although we cannot supply proof of this assertion, we might recall, for what it's worth, that Churchill was one of the strong proponents for a meeting at the "summit". Perhaps, at that long-ago date, the astute Churchill knew that an East-West reconciliation was mandatory before ever coping with the still greater issue of the UFO. Now, reflectively, we can only wonder what occurred in or over Russia since the summer of 1954, and, why now, the growling Bear has turned to
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