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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 33 Nor has the United States Airforce ever denied the possibility that Flying Saucers have an extraterrestrial basis. In fact, it was a high-ranking officer from the Pentagon who told saucer-viewer D.S. DesVergers at Palm Beach International Airport on Aug. 22, 1952, that he (DesVergers ) was "the only one in the world who has come within reaching distance of a saucer." ## CRAFT NOT HOSTILE: During the eight years in which saucer-like objects have been frequently observed in our skies, not one person has ever been able to prove that our disk visitants have been hostile to Earthmen. On the other hand, reports which I have before me indicate that "crashed" saucerships have been examined by American, British, and Mexican government authorities. Had anti-aircraft guns gone into action before the alleged saucercraft "crashes"? Only Mexico's, America's and Britain's top-level government agents can furnish us with the true answers. One fact if obcious: major world governments are anxious to thrust into the upper air regions fast-moving, man-constructed satellites. Have fererish investiga tions of extraterrestrial Flying Saucers taught Earth's scientists how to employ space electricity for craft-propulsion purposes? I am inclined to reply in the negative. EDITORIAL - continued from Page Efforts made by myself to ascertain a reason for this, or obtain the press's impressions of our meeting only met with stone-wall, but polite, refusals to comment in any way. (Herald) ******* Investigators are at a loss to explain the lack of press challenge and probe into this mystery. Although they have published in brief our views from time to time, they appear to be only too willing and ready to give prominent mention and space to any new debunking champion and his fantastically new or rehashed weatherworn theories. There are a few exceptions, of course., to the e we are truly thankfull. When the day of reckoning arrives we will not forget them. ## "THE FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY" ( $ 3.50. ) Highly recommended -- Highly recommended -- Highly recommended A copy of Major Donald E. Keyhoe's new book "THE FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY" arrived at CSI Hdqrs. a few days ago from Henry Holt & Company Inc. 383 Madison Avenue, New York I7, N.Y. via first class mail. This third book by Keyhoe is a masterpiece of exposure of the U.S. Airforce's rigidly enforced censorship, explain away policy & determined high-level refusal to release the astonishing true analysis of their extensive, serious & global UFO research. The contents of this book will shake even the believers in interplanetary "saucers", like the documentary authenticated facts in his earlier works Keyhoe's latest revelations will shake the very foundations of the "die-hard orthodox thinkers". and their "limited horizons". The chapter titles are - (1) Blackout, (2) The First Clue, (3) The Silence Group Strikes, (4) Unknown Worlds, (5) Enigma On The Moon, (6) The Hidden Orders, (7) Cover-up At Quantico, (8) Satellite Search, (9) Mystery On Mars, (10) Ground All Planes, (11) Breaks In The Blackout, (12) Shadowed From Space, (13) The Wilmington Expose, (14) The Burning Road, (15) The Invisible Saucers, (16) Angels Hair, (17) Oberth & G. Field, (18) Redell Explains A Riddle, (19) The Vanishing Planes.
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