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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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THIS LETTER WAS POSTED TO ALL N.Z. DAILIES ON THE DATE GIVEN BELOW. CIVILIAN SAUCER INVESTIGATION(NZ) Page 34 22nd, November 1955 Headquarters I Nissan Place, Onehunga S.E. Auckland, New Zealand The Editor Dear Sir, Please find enclosed a complimentary copy of our programme as presented at our public meeting on November 7th. On the rear of the programme sheet is a brief news summary re CSI(NZ) which we hope you will find of interest. Our PUBLIC MEETING proved most successful, the hall which seats 300 being filled to capacity. A charge of 2/6 for admission was made. As we are a non-profit organization, proceeds are destined to aid further research. Our organization continues to increase in membership; public interest is becoming increasingly broader and keener, despite the shamefully misleading, confusing and deliberately untruthfull statement recently released by Mr. Donald A Quarles, Secretary For Air, U.S. Air Force. (NZ press 26th October)&( repeated 2I/II/55. Leading civilian investigators agree with Major Donald E Keyhoe, author of two outstanding books on "Unidentified Flying Objects", that this Air Force release was deliberately timed to try and discourage extraordinary demand for his new book to be released shortly, by Henry Holt & Co., New York. Keyhoe's previous works "FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL" I950 & "FLYING SAUCER FROM OUTER SPACE" Oct. I953, revealed to the public for the first time numerous extraordinary factual and authenticated startling UFO incidents previously kept "TOP SECRET" by the US Air Force. On the 31st October, Major Keyhoe (retired) stated to Leonard H. Stringfield (leading US "UFO" investigator and publisher of "ORBIT") (monthly UFO news bulletin),"My new book "THE FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY" is coming out on December 5th., in it is proof that the recent Air Force statement is a complete cover-up concealing vital facts from the public. The U.S.Air Force remains seriously concerned with the UFOs". It has also been recently revealed (C.R.I.F.O. "ORBIT" Nov.I955) by Robert C. Gardner (another leading investigator) that in February I953 Gardner was granted an interview with General Benjamin Chidlaw, then in charge of the US continental air defences at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado. The General, having now retired, Gardner feels free to release previously withheld information. In the course of the Feb., I953 interview, General Chidlaw stated "WE HAVE STACKS OF REPORTS ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS, WE TAKE THEM VERY SERIOUSLY WHEN YOU CONSIDER WE HAVE LOST MANY MEN AND PLANES TRYING TO INTERCEPT THEM". Further supporting civilian investigators beliefs are the timely and sobering words voiced by General Douglas McArthur to visiting Mayor of Naples, Achille Lauro on October 7th, 1955 at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York. The Mayor revealed the General's statements to the New York Times as follows " --- He thinks that another war would be double suicide and that there is enough sense on both sides of the Iron Curtain to avoid it --- He believes that because of the developments of science all countries on earth will have to unite to survive and TO MAKE A COMMON FRONT AGAINST ATTACK BY PEOPLE FROM OTHER PLANETS----- " The Mayor added that in the General's opinion the politics of the future will be cosmic or interplanetary. Trusting you find the above interesting and helpfull, Yours Faithfully Harold H Fulton, Dominion President, CSI(NZ)
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