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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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## Page 29 He drew some circles, pointed out over the moor and then at us, and then pointed to himself and another circle. I had at once the impression that he wanted to tell us something about a solar system, but perhaps I was mistaken. The man then made a sign for us to follow him. He turned and walked out along the fen. We followed, and not far away we saw a curious contraption. It was grey-blue and looked like two giant pot lids placed together. It was about ten feet in diameter, and about four and a half feet in height, ## THE THING: Because the man was still so calm and convincingly friendly, we were still not afraid, though we thought this a very curious thing to find in the wilds. We approached the thing, but he made a sign that we were not to come too close. He then opened a kind of hatch on the top of the "rim" which encircled the thing, crawled in and shut himself in. Presently we heard a faint humming, like the droning of a large bumble bee, and the curious vessel rose slowly while rotating on its own axis. Then, and only then, did all I had read about Flying Saucers come to my mind. When the saucer reached about a hundred feet it hovered for a moment and then started totating very fast. Finally it rose at tremendous speed and disappeared. Asta and I agreed not to tell anyone about the incident. The visitor had gone, and we had nothing with which to prove our story. And without proof the story would sound so fantastic that we were afraid of being ridiculed. It was Asta who first told the story. She couldn't hide it from her husband, That's why it spread around Mosjoen. A reporter from the local paper got hold of it and approached the police to get their confirmation. They asked us to make statements and later to take them to the locality of the landing. There were no signs to be found, but that wasn't surprising as six days had gone by since our meeting. After that we couldn't venture out without being stopped in the street to tell the story anew. Many people laugh at us, and many are angry because they believe we are pulling their legs. But we have only told a story of something that definitely happened to us. We saw it simultaneuosly, and we reacted in the same way. But the questioning we went through was so intense that at times I thought I would lose my reason. The whole thing is so fantastic that I can readily understand why people who have known me all my life refuse to believe me. People have a right to their own opinions, but I earnestly wish that some responsible person like a police official or a parson had had this experience. At least they would have been belaved. Finn Nortstom, who interviewed the sisters separately, said there were no discrepancies in their accounts. He added that Edith was mischievous enough to enjoy playing a great joke on people, but that it seemed highly improbable that she should stretch the joke so far and to adhere so firmly to a fabricated story. Asta is a very calm and well-balanced person, he said, even if she feels somewhat troubled because of the uproar the affair had caused. Nobody who meets her would take her for anything else but an ordinary housewife. She is quiet, level headed and views all world problems with indifference if the porridge is in danger of burning. "FLYING SAUCERS" C.S.I!S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE IS EDITED AND PRODUCED BY H.H.FULTON AT C.S.I'S HEADQUARTERS I, NISSAN PLACE, ONEHUNGA.S.E.5. AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND. SUBS. IO/- N.Z. II/- OVERSEAS ( $1.50c. USA) per 4 quarterly issues. --- THIS IS OUR DECEMBER 1955 ISSUE -----
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