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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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The Rev. William Peebles, of Balmaclellan, said yesterday that he had heard of a watch being maintained for such things. "And Mr. Brazier is the last man in the world to be imagining things like this," he added. Yesterday the police said that helicopters had been operating from time to time in the area, but they never heard of them flying at night. "What I saw was not a helicopter," said Mr. Brazier firmly. ******* BUFFALONIAN CLAIMS 'SAUCE.R.S' By: DR. BENJAMIN D. BENINCASA. (Dr. Benincasa is a graduate of Canisius College. He holds a Ph.D. from University of Ottawa, and he resides with his family at 27 Montcalm Avenue, Buffalo.) Flying disk and aerial cigar information has been reaching my office periodically from reliable sources in the Eastern and Western Hemisphere. Letters written to me on the subject of saucercraft number in the hundreds. Saucership articles in my possession occupy a dozen large file boxes. After re-inspecting saucer data on my desk, which emanate from the four corners of the earth, I am obliged to reiterate my position of some time ago, namely, that Flying Saucers are real, solid, navigable and maneuverable aerial bodies. I have likewise been strengthened in my conviction - which I share with Prof. Hermann Oberth who is recognised as the father of European rocketry and who just arrived in America to help us set up our basketball satellite project - that Flying Saucers are genuine airborne vehicles from outer space. WELL-FOUNDED SUSPICION: I have also come to the conclusion that the establishment of the original American Satellite Project, which was initially recommended by the late Secretary James Forrestall in 1948, was directly prompted by a well-founded suspicion that the nine tremendous, peculiarly-shaped aircraft spotted by Pilot Kenneth Arnold over the State of Washington June 24th, 1947, had come from an extraterrestrial land of scientifically superior human beings. Slowly but surely terrestiral human beings are beginning to believe that we are not alone in this incredibly great unive rse of ours. In our solar system alone there are inhabited planets many times bigger than our dwarfish rotating sphere. In the cosmos there are stars which make our sun look like a household electric light bulb. ## INEVITABLE CONCLUSION: Astronomers who once were reluctant to believe in the existence of a Venusian atmosphere, have begun one by one to bow to the inevitable conclusion that our planet is not by any means a unique inhabited planetary sphere which must differ in every respect from her sister planets. Even some of the most distinguished telescopists have come out openly for the saucercraft-reality thesis. They are: C.W. Tombaugh, discoverer of Planet Pluto; M.K. Jessup, author of "The Case for the UFO"; S.L. Hess, Harvard Observatory, Astronomer at Flagstaff, Arizona; and W.L. Moore, professor of astronomy at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
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