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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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C.S.I. President's summary of his committee's findings following their 20-months investigation "Unidentified Flying Objects".
Numerous conspicuous events that have happened since that date add tenfold confirmation to this May 1954 statement.
Civilian Saucer Investigation (N.Z.) was established on the 12th October, 1952, and had, in accordance with rules laid down at inauguration, remained until the 6th May, 1954, a small compact body with a maximum strength of eight committee members. Representatives and honorary observers had been appointed throughout New Zealand and overseas countries, from keen correspondents and officers of kindred organisations willing to give us every assistance.
The committee, having made itself familiar with the many theories advanced to explain the Saucers, having also made research into, and acquainted themselves with all known forms of atmospheric, meteoric, celestial and extra terrestrial; natural phenomena . . .
One year and eight months had elapsed since the organisation was formed, during which time the aims and objectives of our investigations had been carried out with much vigour and determination; resulting in some noteworthy success. ('This does not imply that we had solved the mystery.) in this period a great amount of activity on the part of the U.F.O.'s had been noted, and our log books of New Zealand and overseas reports house a vast amount of information from private and press reported sources.
Finds: that to date no natural phenomena explanation can
account for, or satisfactorily explain away, the hundreds of exceptionally well-authenticated reports submitted with minute details by the most reliable and qualified witnesses, supported by radar, theodolite, telescope, camera (still and movie taken in broad daylight)—and other mechanical aids to aerial material detection.
Therefore: It is the feeling of this committee that there is on record today powerful evidence to support the existence of real strange-shaped craft frequenting earth's skies with flight characteristics and capabilities far beyond our most advanced designs and comprehensions.
Concurrently: The very evidence that so strongly supports the actual existence of these strange ships equally well supports the near conviction of all investigating authorities (most are completely convinced), that they are indeed from distant worlds.
It is also of paramount significance to this committee that those government-sponsored investigating agencies in the U.S.A., and Canada in particular, after five years' research by their leading scientific brains, aided by all modern mechanical instruments, have failed to find a natural phenomena explanation that can match the reported facts and so explain them away. These authorities admit that up to 15 per cent are inexplicable.
It is most significant that all the major world powers and the majority of the minor ones, have established departments, laboratories, etc., giving continuous and top priority studies to this astonishing problem of ever-growing concern. General Twining, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, has stated that at least one thousand top U.S. scientists are engaged in U.F.O. research and investigation. This committee, because of its acute awareness of the situation on a world basis, is near certain that the American official investigating authorities have to a greater extent solved the mystery, but to date have refused to release their truthful analysis. Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 445 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.