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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. 14 …a "Aying saucer" over the Hawock North Hills is claimed to have been obtained by Mr…
  • p. 15 …to be coming slowly down towards the hills. It bore the appearance, she said, of a…
  • p. 20 …They first noticed the light high above the hills behind Bay View. It hovered there for…
  • p. 21 …To-night it will set shortly before 9 o'clock, though, with hills to the west…
  • p. 28 …very powerful one, flashing on the Patterang hill, about a mile distant. First it kept pointing…
  • p. 61 …step they shall be Sahin Discover the Hills will. Often and thing will be set free…
  • p. 72 …On reaching the brow of a hill he saw a brightly lit object coming toward him…
  • p. 94 …the following from the top of Kinbarni Hill : at 3: 32 p.m. shortly after a…
  • p. 125 …large star low down over the Wellington hills drew the attention of a prominent Auckland business…
  • p. 130 …climbed a hill in Lancashire to photograph birds. They set their camera to infinity and directed…
  • p. 132 …Both then disappeared slowly behind the outline of the hill. 北川羌族自治县
  • p. 175 …CLOSE-UP OF THE GREAT GALLOWAY HILLS MYSTERY - WHAT CAN THIS THING BE? This is reported…
  • p. 188 …On February 15 this year two schoolboys were reported to have climbed a hill in Lancashire…
  • p. 189 …Stewart, a farmer, of Saddle Hill, one of the men who saw the fire ball (or…
  • p. 212 # SCIENTIST EXPLAINS STRANGE SKY SIGHTS On top of Kelburn hill two silver observatory domes gleam in…
  • p. 225 The objects that landed were not Meteorites, because they travelled horizontally, manoeuvred around hills, stopped in…
  • p. 233 …This club formed by students of a Primary School, One Tree Hill. Master Kelvin Barton advised…
  • p. 249 …see a bright star, slightly above the hill behind Whakarewarewa, suddenly, "take off" on a circuit…
  • p. 251 …to see the object disappear over a hill in a manner that suggested to him, would…
  • p. 256 …He was on top of the hill in Commons Street, Oneraht, when the sun had just…
  • p. 257 …and at the time was on a hill overlooking the countryside. He was looking toward where…
  • p. 258 …over the penisula and disappeared over Saddle Hill. A boy said it looked like a football…
  • p. 267 …It was a big fireball and, though it seemed to be over the Karori hills, must…
  • p. 278 …Three policemen plodded solemnly into the hills accompanied by the sisters and surveyed the scene of…
  • p. 312 …as far a part as Hamilton East, Hill-croft Whitiora, and Maeroa and which occured right…
  • p. 320 …This corresponds with the rotation of a parabolic antenna located on a nearby hill. As the…
  • p. 327 …vapor, flashing across the sky over Box Hill at 2.30p.m. I saw what appeared…
  • p. 335 …Scoffers were con- founded, however, by the unusual story of a settler at Kauroo Hill. It…
  • p. 336 …time the airship had disappeared over a hill. The object was also seen at Mahono. The…
  • p. 363 …a south-East direction near the Adelaide hills. In the meantime I called my wife who…
  • p. 368 …Southwest had seen flash across the bare hills in straight, silent, horizontal flight, Unger recalled a…
  • p. 379 …191953 A group of people at surrey hills yesterday reported seeing a four minute display by…
  • p. 392 …was well above the line of the hills. When he resumed his journey he saw the…
  • p. 393 …The main light, however, seemed to hover over the Hokonui Hills. For some time it swung…
  • p. 396 …blue object was seen over the Port Hills at Christchurch at 11.45 p.m. A…
  • p. 422 …Brown, of Hill Grove, Naenae, their daughter Alice and her friend Ron Middleton, all saw a…
  • p. 430 …was even above the line of the hills. When he resumed his journey he saw the…
  • p. 431 …motion well above the outline of the hills. It was going in an easterly direction. I…
  • p. 436 …bearing says, a church spire or a hill, we can draw a line on a map…
  • p. 439 …disappeared in a northerly direction over the hills of Khandallah. The object was viewed from the…
  • p. 444 …Sugarloaf hill near Napier DATE: 30/10/52 TIME: approx 9.30pm. A/C.TYPE(s…

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CIVILIAN SAUCER INVESTIGATION (N.Z.)

A SPECIAL CALL TO ALL MEMBERS.

P.O. Box 1914,

AUCKLAND. N.Z.

To all our Associates:

Until a few weeks back, C.S.I. had the loan of a Gestetner Duplicating Machine, thus enabling us to turn out the Quarterly Magazine, Newsletters, and all special notices, etc. To have this done by a commercial business would have been quite beyond our means. You can picture our distress when notice was received that the machine was no longer available for C.S.I. use. This was not due to any negligence on our part - for rather the President had almost completely reconditioned the machine to the stage of very efficient operation.

As if by a strange twist of fate, at the moment of our loss C.S.I. was offered a modern electrically operated machine at a price greatly less than it's market value. Something had to be done quickly; C.S.I. did not have sufficient funds in reserve to make the cash purchase offer. Briefly, a member of C.S.I. hearing of our predicament, generously made a temporary loan, thus enabling us to make the purchase of this absolutely necessary and much needed asset.

Now dear members we are making a special and urgent call on your generosity in asking for cash donations, so that your central Committee may pay back this loan. No matter how small, all contributions will be most appreciated, please forward as soon as possible.

To date C.S.I. costs, raw materials, mailings etc., have limited our operations to a hand to mouth recourse. Thus it has not been possible to build up a cash reserve. Like all young Public Organisations, C.S.I.'s existence has depended on enthusiasm, enterprise, voluntary donations, and many hundreds of hours of labour of love on the part of the central Committee and other local members.

This is your chance to help us to survive, progress, and so bring you ever more interesting findings and news of the Identified Flying Objects", which more than promises a most amazing and enlightening future, perhaps only a short way ahead, for the peoples of our planet, Earth.

CAN YOU HELP US TO HELP YOU!!

Kindest thanks in advance,

Yours sincerely,

HAROLD H. FULTON. Pres. C.S.I. (NZ)

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MARCH EDITION OF QUARTERLY MAGAZINE.

Due to the Editor's absence at Ohakea on Air Force duties from the 10th Jan. to the 27th Feb., the above mentioned difficulties with duplicating printing machine, and the arrival of over a hundred letters in the last month or so from many parts of the world, the Editor and Publisher has found it impossible to get the Magazine out on time. It is hoped that you will bear with us understandingly, and accept this NEWSLETTER as the best we can muster in the meantime.

Additions to Our Committee & Appointments:

Central Committee Meeting, 14/3/55: Present state:- President, H.H. Fulton: Vice President, J. Connell: Secretary, Mrs. J. Yeldon: Treasurer & Asst. Secretary, Mrs. P. Leach: Publicity Manager, D. Foreman. Committee:- J. Purdeu, M. Hinge, Del LaVaris, W. Tennent, D.W.G. Saunders, H. Hinfelaar.

Formation of North Shore Branch C.S.I. On March 2nd North Shore Branch of C.S.I. was formed by Mr. Dan Saunders. Mr. Saunders, a member of C.S.I. central Committee, was elected President of N.S.B. Mr. Clark, Secretary, and Mr. Busing, Treasurer. All members of N.S.B. are full members of C.S.I. and are making much favourable progress in membership promotion and provision for technical apparatus to obtain first class evidence of the UFO'S. Enquiries to:- Hon. Secretary, P.O. Box 3496, Auckland.

Special Display of C.S.I. Material & Evidence: A window display will appear in the Epsom Business Centre (407A Manukau Road) on approximately April 10th for a period of 14 days. It is hoped this display will then move to a strategic city position in Queen Street, Auckland.

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