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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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Far. October 1955 C.R.I.F.O. "ORBIT" The Cincinnati Scene Still UFO-Infested. Vol II NO.7. excerpts. Greater Cincinnati, like other cities in the midwest, continued to be a point of UFO concentration. August 29th, at 3.15 p.m., a metallic disc, reflecting sunlight, was seen hovering over the Ohio River. It shot away on the approach of an airliner heading toward Boone County Airport. In the days following, the city's perimeter areas were frequently visited, centring mainly in the western section at Cleves, Bridgetown and Hooven. Adrian Connelly, who knows this section well, has repeatedly called the writer, reporting strange lights appearing and discs and spheres sometimes hovering, making square turns, swinging like pemdulums or bouncing like the popular "song-fest ball". Landings have also been reported in these areas - NOT MANY MILES AWAY FROM THE FERNALD ATOMIC PLANT! Concerned, the Air Force, we are told, investigated. On Sept, 20th, Connelly reported a bright red and green object flying low and soundlessly over his home. An hour later, reports of UFO's came in from tormented Mt. Healthy. Charles Deininger, member of GOC, phoned the writer, describing two large brilliant red objects to the northwest. A later call singled out one red object, which the observers agreed bounced like a ball. A final report told of an aircraft appearing on the scene and the object changing from red to white, and shooting soundlessly to the southwest. On September 23rd the suburb of Mt. Washington had a similar experience. Mr. Kenneth Martin, disturbed by two large bright red lights in the sky, called her neighbours, Mrs. & Mrs. George Robertson and daughter. Together they watched the glowing objects maneuver in toward a hilltop plateau about a quarter of a mile from their homes. At this point the objects stopped suddenly, and Mrs. Martin said they looked as large as traffic lights.' Once in this position all observers agreed that the objects began to move independently, jumping up and down. Mr. Robertson said that one object continually moved away at a 45 degree angle, and returned to its original position. Moving soundlessly, the objects then dropped down behind a flank of trees and disappeared. Frightened, Mrs. Martin phoned the Sheriff and the GOC who promptly investigated. All witnesses agreed that a alarge dog chained to a trailer in the area where the objects oscillated, barked furiously. ## METALLIC BALL LANDS IN YARD DEPARTS ON SOUND OF VOICE. Case 104, Cincinnati, 9.15 p.m. Sept. 3, 1955. Driving slowly over dark Boomer Road, west of the city, Frank Flaig and his wife were starled to see through the windscreen, a round airborne object, appearing metallic grey, descending slowly before them. Awe-struck, Flaig stopped his car for a better look. Reflecting the moonlight, the spheroid had no protruding lights or parts. It's downward verticle course, although slow, was constant and free of flutter, swerve, or suspension. Flaig desperately tried to follow the object, but it dropped out of sight behind an unlighted house, about 125 ft. away. Leaving his car, Flaig then went to the side of the house to investigate, and to his surprise, found the object SUSPENDED ABOUT A FOOT ABOVE THE GROUND. About this time, his wife, alone and frightened, called out. At that very instant, according to Flaig, the spheroid began to rise, and making no sound, continued its
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