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NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files

NZDF / RNZAF via Internet Archive · 2010-12 · 445 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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. 13 …between Albatross Point and what we call Hamilton West, the object covered 70 miles." pilot. "The…
  • p. 14 …strange objects flying in the sky over Hamilton on Wednesday night have been received from two…
  • p. 72 …Several Observers WATRATO TIMES Reports of strange objects lying in the sky over Hamilton on Wednesday…
  • p. 104 ZKAK 4443 0449500 JJ ACC WN ATTENTION DUTY CONTROLLER FOLLWOING FLYING SAUCER REPORT RECEIVED FROM HAMILTON…
  • p. 128 …between Albatross Point and what we call Hamilton West, the object covered 70 miles." It was…
  • p. 150 …speed therefore 840 M.P.H. ## UKU ## HAMILTON Another or same "Flying Light" sighted two hours…
  • p. 156 …of Hamilton County GOC, on duty at the Mt. Healthy Post, phoned the writer of the…
  • p. 227 …has an "Honorary Observer" in Hamilton, and he reports: "I heard the explosion, it was not…
  • p. 233 …John E Stuart, IO James Street Claudelands Hamilton. "FLYING SAUCER INVESTIGATION CLUB" 21 Maungakeikei Avenue, One…
  • p. 249 …His report was not publisded. ## Hamilton July 8th At 3.30pm on the 8th July the…
  • p. 250 …E Stuart, of IO James Street, claudelands, Hamilton. I, John E. Stuart, do hereby solemnly swear…
  • p. 256 …Objects Over Hamilton HAMILTON, Tue. (P.A.).—Strange objects have been reported in Hamilton skies. A…
  • p. 257 ## SUBJECT: ## FURTHER REPORTS OF ## STRANGE OBJECT SEEN WAIKATO TIMES IN HAMILTON SKY The published report yesterday…
  • p. 279 PUBLISHED at Hamilton on date 16th December, 1957 SUBJECT: # Flying Saucers Are Again In The News…
  • p. 281 …H. FORTUNE Minister Assisting the Prime Minister. HAMILTON EDDCH SINCE MINISTER OF DEFENCE File Referred . Minister…
  • p. 283 …The foregoing is the theory of who was assisted , Hamilton Flying Saucer Investigation Society. IIth July…
  • p. 293 …The other company, James Aviation Limited, Hamilton, had successfully applied for its licence about two months…
  • p. 312 …We have reports from France, America, Australia and quite recently from Hamilton New Zealand. Waikato Times…
  • p. 313 …October 21 at Hamilton 3.15a.m. Orange coloured disc moving across sky at great speed…
  • p. 357 …Stuart's home in Hamilton. A very pleasurable afternoon was spent and much discussions on the…
  • p. 359 …U.S.A.; Mr.J.E.Stuart, Hamilton; Mr.Brassell,Wanganui; Mr. Fletcher, Nelson. ## C.S…
  • p. 380 …Secretary, Hamilton Flying Saucer Investigation Society, 10 James Street, Claudelands, Hamilton, New Zealand. President, Albert K…
  • p. 400 …1 3 minutes Hamilton 29.9.52 3 a.m. 2 Camuru 23.10.52 9…
  • p. 402 …Fourteen people, including four women, met tonight in Hamilton and formed the Hamilton Flying Saucer Investigating…
  • p. 411 …secs Saucer Nil Nil Blue green colour. Hamilton 1948 Bright Sunlight Three 30 secs Saucer North…
  • p. 415 …green, blue headed south green headed west. Hamilton 9.12.52 9.45 pm Three 10…
  • p. 425 # SCHOOLBOYS SEND "FLYING SAUCERS" OVER HAMILTON HAMILTON, November 27 (P.A.).-Three "flying saucers" seen over…
  • p. 438 …1 3 minutes Hamilton 29/9/52 3 a.m. 2 Oamaru 23/10/52 9…

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wondering about the noisy jets, DID NOT SUSPECT THE TRUTH.

The following morning, jet aircraft were still aloft over greater Cincinnati, UFC again were spotted by GOC AT Forestville. Herb Clark, Ralph Bardoff and Fred Pfeffer, on duty, described the object as brilliant white and making no sound to the Filter Centre. Confirming reports of UFO actively came from GOC in Loveland and as far west as Vevey, Indiana.

Case 101, Northwest of Cincinnati, Ohio, August 25th, 1955 -

A huge object described as "bright, round and tannish in colour" was witnessed by scores of people near the Fernald atomic plant north of Cincinnati. Two county policemen in separate cruisers, (5) Sgt. Ralph Weber and Patrolman Ernest Neher, radiod dispatcher Thomas McGuinn at approximately the same time - 10:40 p.m. - that they were watching the object. Sgt. Weber estimated the altitude at 5,000 ft. directly above the plant. The same night, four teenagers, in the vicinity, were terrified by a "little green man".

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## THE CONTROVERSIAL LITTLE GREEN MEN AND THE TINGLING FACTS.

Like their craft, the Flying Saucer, the little green men recently have come in for a public showdown. However, amid the sneers and chuckles, are a few shocking facts. Studying these, we advise our readers to stop laughing.

First, we have received numerous reports of "Saucer" LANDINGS AND LITTLE MEN from points of UFO concentration. Among these and not to be dismissed are the incidents occurring in Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina, and from new evidence, those occurring in France and Italy in the late summer of 1954. Although the newswires have hushed stories emanating from the U.S.A., we know of several incidents where the facts corroborate each other.

In all known incidents and witnesses, unfortunately, have been dubbed as lunatics - a subjective reason why more stories have never been related, especially so, where PROMINENT PEOPLE are involved!

The Cincinnati Story is this month's feature not because of dearth of material. Nor is it featured because off the UFO concentrations, which alone is interesting. Our purpose is one of greater importance, for the facts show that the fringe areas of Cincinnati have been a repeated SITE FOR LANDINGS AND THE APPEARANCE OF LITTLE GREEN MEN. The officials are aware of this new menace, and we know that more than a handful of Cinicn natians have become more than passively alarmed.

Before the Hopkinsville "little green men" story broke over the nation (6), CRIFO had silently gathered some unpublishable facts concerning such orgish encounters near Cincinnati. As it is our policy not to publish names in connection with many of these events, we should like to site a case involving a prominent business man, living in Loveland. Occurring several weeks ago, this person who is a non-drinker and a churchgoer (we must add these virtues, it seems, for crdibility) saw four "strange" little men about three feet tall, under a certain bridge. He reported the bizarre affair to the police and we understand that an armed guard was placed there. A similar event supposedly had taken place near Batavia east of Cincinnati.

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Later learned three policemen, in separate cruisers, witnessed the object. CRIFO received dozens of clippings of the U.P. release from all major U.S. cities. The incident is too well known to report,

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