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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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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". --- ## 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. ## --- 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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