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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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smiles, licking his honey. Russia, the enigma in the world of politics, is no less enigmatic in the role of the UFO. All attempts by C.R.I.F.O. to burrow under the Iron Curtain for information have been futile. However, we do have one informative report, that removes any notion that the Russians are treating the subject with the apathy they pretend. We quote from the item, datelined Berlin, NANA November 3rd, 1952. "A GERMAN SCIENTIST'S DAUGHTER who lived in the Russian Zone and was conscripted for work in a Moscow laboratory, escaped to the Western Zone recently. This girl of 24 told the High Commissioner's office that the Russians had come to the conclusion that Flying Saucers are not figments of imagination, but are something real. The Russians, she said, are resolved to find out what they are. Her father had worked under the Nazis at Peenemunds during World War II. Un the beginning, she said, the Russians dismissed the heavenly objects as propoganda released by the Western world as a scare in the hope of convincing timid persons of the great scientific might of the West. Later, however, they began to take a more serious view of the matter when RELIABLE STORIES of Flying Saucers were reported over Turkey and Southern Russia ... Septem- THE QUESTION OF INTERPLANETARY WAR - LANDINGS & LITTLE MEN. ber 2nd. CINCINNATI IS SCENE OF UFO CONCENTRATION... VOL.II NO.6. excerpts CINCINNATI, SWELTERING UNDER ONE OF ITS HOTTEST SUMMERS, HAD FORGOTTEN FLYING SAUCERS. Even the local newspapers, in their seasonably "canned" Editorials, had neglected to remind the readers that Saucers and the heat were deplorably synonymous. While the press faithfully recoiled, leaving the unsuspecting public aloft in their ivory towers, only a handful of Cincinnatians knew the real issues. Among these few were certain Civil Defence officials, who were, in the main, under security, and C.R.I.F.O., who had learned vital information the hard way. In essence the truth presented a sobering picture. Drawing from recent information and correlating it with the past, we concluded, (1) UFO'S have turned from surveillance to aggressive action. (2) such action constitutes, IPSO FACTO, a state of interplanetary war. (3) the war is entering a critical period or turning point and the world's military forces are uniting, defensively. (4) regional concentrations and landings of UFO's are in effect. (5) until the UFO's ultimate objective is determined, the fate of the world, as a result of landings, singly or en masse, is unknown. (1). Like other key points, Cincinnati ad environs were in the direct path of the gathering storm. Whether or not the local press knew the grim facts, they were keeping silent, but the thunderhead had already showed its tentacling menace. Just north of the city, in the town of Loveland, members of the GOC were reporting a heavy concentration of UFO's to the Columbus Air Filter Centre. Strange brilliant objects were frequently sighted hovering low over the residential section, and on one occasion, a lone metallic disc was seen during daylight hours hovering not far from the GOC observation tower. On July 29th, Cincinnati proper was swooped on by a neon-brightball. Making a weird penetrating shrill sound, the object performed aerially in zig-zags and square turns before disappearing to the north. The incident occurred about 1 a.m. in Madison Place, and according to reports, the object was also seen over Loveland by GOC members. However, it was not until August 5th that the public's eyes were opened and the press broke its silence. Case 97, Northern Kentucky, Cincinnati, Columbus, Lancaster, Ohio, August 5th, 1955 - At 8.40 p.m. a large brilliant tear-drop shaped object, flying south to north, crossed the city's skies. It moved swiftly and soundlessly in a straight horizontal path without visual arc. Witnessed by thousands, including the writer, who's view was excellent, the object appeared as large as a dime held at arm's length.
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