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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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standing still on planet, making our speedy way about the sun. So, too, with space navigators seated in their craft. They complain of no discomfort. Mr. Adamski reports that our jet planes are like horse-driven carriages in comparison to outer space aircraft. "Inside The Space Ships" has a foreward by Desmond Leslie, co-author of "Flying Saucers Have Landed", and a biographical sketch of the author by Charlotte Blodget. There are 16 illustrations. A diagram of a Venusian mother-ship indicates that smaller space-ships are discharged from below, and are allowed to enter at the top of the bigger ships. (The English publishers of Adamski's new book is Neville Spearman Ltd & ARCO, IO. Fitzroy St., London W.I. and is to be published early in the near year (1956)Price expected 10/- to 12/-. # STEPPED INSIDE A FLYING SAUCER MAN ENTERS GROUNDED DISC. Excerpt from APRO Bulletin, August, 1955. The Caracas, Venezuela, Daily Newspaper "El Universal", carried an almost weird sequel to the events of last fall when on May 7, 1955, the story of an engineer's encounter with a Saucer and it's defunct occupants in 1950, was aired for the first time within it's pages. Our Caracas informat, Horacio Gonzales, forwarded to APRO along with one picture taken on the spot; the following story:- "Doctor B. was driving along the highway about 75 miles from his hotel in an isolated region called Bahia Blanca, in Argentina, when he saw the metallic discoide object resting on the ground to his left off the highway. He stopped the car to investigate and immediately decided it must be one of the much-discussed "Flying Saucers". He watched it for a few moments to see what it would do, but as nothing took place, he approached it and saw an opening or door in its side. He looked inside and it appeared to be empty. There was a red light pulsating in the dome at intervals of one second. Curious, he went inside and was surprised to see a sort of curved divan in three seats, two of which were occupied by small beings covered from head to foot (except for an opening for the face) in a kind of tight-fitting overall of a brown colour. He estimated the height of the beings to be about four feet. Their faces seemed charred or burnt, with holes where the eyes should have been. Another of the little creatures was sprawled in a seat situated in approximately the centre of the enclosure. In front of them was a screen with rays playing on it, and on top of the screen was a globe of glass or other transparent material which was rotating. An ungovernable impulse urged Dr. B. to touch one of the creatures, and it felt stiff and rigid. It was then, he said, that some inner voice told him to get out as soon as possible as he was in the presence of "strange life" and he rushed to his car and sped off at high speed, non-stopping until he reached his hotel. He related his story to a few intimate friends and armed with a camera, they decided to return. But as night had already fallen, and due to the isolation of the region, they refrained from going that very night but returned to the place the next day. On reaching the spot, all that was found where the disc rested was a heap of ashes. Dr. B. took two pictures of the ash heap and each of the three men of the group actually felt it with his hands which turned a purplish colour.
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