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NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files

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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.

  • p. 11 …I have never seen a planet move like that. My co-pilot (First Officer S G…
  • p. 22 …I can only add if anyone believes my something they have never seen then here's…
  • p. 50 …they have landed, someplace, but I have never been able to track it down, but as…
  • p. 51 …the space people? A. It was not. Never deliberate on their part, but our aggression and…
  • p. 52 …Well I was taken pretty close to one other planet like that of Venus but never…
  • p. 53 …to class-room, for graduation which is never attained because eternity is eternity. Do they have…
  • p. 62 …lot on this great took it has never been strong yet I gave my standing son…
  • p. 72 …I never read who-dunnits, and I shun thrillers like poison; I suppose I have to…
  • p. 91 …such things for personal files but have never had copies made. I can see the value…
  • p. 97 …g) No peculiarities except that I have never observed its like before. (h) Solid in appearance…
  • p. 126 …moment. "In all my flying I've never seen anything 'like it," he said today. Air…
  • p. 137 …Someplace, but I have never been able to track it down, but as far as I…
  • p. 138 …the space people? A. It was not. Never deliberate on their part, but our aggression and…
  • p. 139 …Well I was taken pretty close to one other planet like that of Venus but never…
  • p. 140 …to class-room, for graduation which is never attained because eternity is eternity. Q. Do they…
  • p. 145 …we are making them," stated Mr. Quarles. Never in the history of our subject have I…
  • p. 151 …I have never said that the Big Four gathered to discuss the question of the UFO…
  • p. 152 …The real issues at Geneva are not yet known, and may never be, but we are…
  • p. 157 …a subjective reason why more stories have never been related, especially so, where PROMINENT PEOPLE are…
  • p. 158 …Wallace's mother, whom we later interviewed, claimed that her son had never been so frightened…
  • p. 167 …the phenomenon of Horseheads, N.Y., may never be known. ## ******* ## THE SWEDISH GHOST ROCKETS by S…
  • p. 172 …ALTHOUGH THE STORY WAS WIDELY REPORTED, IT WAS NEVER PUBLISHED IN FULL OUTSIDE SCANDINAVIA. NOW Flying…
  • p. 174 …I was never more than three or four minutes walk from the girls, and I reckon…
  • p. 176 …to time in the area, but they never heard of them flying at night. "What I…
  • p. 183 …He could not say whether or not it might be a meteor as he had never…
  • p. 201 …Besides, you never know what they could do to you . . . There is no material we know…
  • p. 213 …Church-because of the probability that they never contracted "original sin." ## Flying Discs Sir,—Periodically, Mr…
  • p. 216 …phenomena, there are many individuals who have never reported "sightings" of their own or knowledge. Hope…
  • p. 222 …France, never to be outdone, when it comes to autumn tourist attractions, has also had its…
  • p. 223 …It is necessary for me to state here that I would never falsely colour or manufacture…
  • p. 224 …They said this because they had never seen a modern deep-water diving suit. What they…
  • p. 231 …first reports were immediately followed by a never-ending chain of fantastic stories mostly created by…
  • p. 242 …I do not know what it was, I have never seen such an object before. President…
  • p. 248 …We have never heard of & find it difficult to imagine any meteors or aurorae presenting such…
  • p. 249 …He says that he and his companions never thought of flying saucers, being sure that it…
  • p. 254 …Civil Aviation Dept for some years, but never with the openness and seriousness of these last…
  • p. 256 # ore Observers Confirm # "NORTHERN ADVOCATE" # Seeing Strange Object 凯6 NOV 195本 "I HAVE never seen anything…
  • p. 257 …the man and his family. "I have never seen anything like it in my life," he…
  • p. 263 …or Martians, they reiterate that astronomers have never made any observations which could indicate a high…
  • p. 271 …With this weight of evidence you could well ask why saucers have never been, officially accepted…
  • p. 272 …chances are greater—a planet we have never even heard of. But wherever they come from…
  • p. 273 …I have never seen a saucer—but at least I have seen Mars! Vow the first…
  • p. 280 Acura shall call the existing currency All Min the Prairie neverer less len Qian FILE. for…
  • p. 286 …The world may never know, although he definitely has had a hand in the disk project…
  • p. 302 …observing of evidences, while those who have never seen a flying saucer make a show by…
  • p. 306 …In 18 years of flying I have never seen anything like it. If it had been…
  • p. 307 …and not forgetting those very important ones never to be forgotten sightings. We sincerely hope you…
  • p. 308 …likes light reading as well, but can never find the time now, so great is the…
  • p. 320 …Another official said that the Air Force had never accepted this theory. By classifying sightings as…
  • p. 321 …I never saw it happen before. If the acceleration explanation is true, then the speeds involved…
  • p. 324 …The Air Force has never denied that such a possibility exists. Some of the personnel believe…
  • p. 332 …more closely, I am sure they would never be so keen to rashly debunk it. Right…
  • p. 356 …These have never been confused with flying saucers as some sources of information contend. Recent events…
  • p. 367 …happenings in the sky that science had never been able satisfactorily to explain. Unger, beginning in…
  • p. 373 …Forefathers, the great majority of their ranks never dreamed of or envisaged that which is ordinary…
  • p. 401 …nuclli open to doubt because there have never been reports of them from sailors, astronomers and…
  • p. 416 …to bright red. "I wish I had never seen it," he said. "It's too fantastic…
  • p. 436 …In spite of all the flying saucer reports all over the world, science has never been…
## 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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