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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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London, March 25th, 1955, a Squardon of Meteor Jet Aircraft, flying at more than 590 miles an hour, chased a "fiery red object" with a red tail across England and Wales on Thursday night. An Air Ministry spokesman said, "A Flight of Meteors from West Malling, Kent, were flying over Manchester towards Birmingham at 7 p.m. when they first sighted the object. It looked like a ball of fire descending rapidly from above them. They were flying at 20,000 ft. and gave chase, but the object made the 500 mile trip from Land's End to Glasgow in about 45 minutes. C.S.I. is immediately aware that many other flyers have seen, chased, and become stupified by similarly described UFO's. For example, remember the P.A.H. flyers W.B. Nash and W.H. Fortenberry, who saw on 14/7/52, six glowing red discs in formation below their aircraft perform an amazing cartwheel reversal of direction at an estimated speed of 1,000 MPH, and were then joined by two others. The eight glowing objects then glowed brighter as they sped away to disappear with an astonishing acceleration and climb. Remember First Officer Bond K.C. of New Zealand N.A.C., who saw on the 6/1/53 a glowing brilliant red-orange light cross his northbound path from West to East. This UFO was flying a flat trajectory and was in view for 45 seconds. Remember First Lt. Balocco of the American Marine Air Wing who, on the 9/2/53, chased a glowing red object over Washington D.C. for five minutes. The object changed direction, dived, climbed with phenomenal speeds and was finally lost, going up and away like they all do where no terrestrial aircraft can reach them. Remember the three New Plymouth top-dressing pilots who, while flying a Cessna Monoplane at 7 a.m. (daylight) on the 24th May, 1954, saw first three then 12 more glowing red-orange discs trailing red flames in line formation apparently hovering approx 7,000 ft. above them. Suddenly, as the astonished pilots, Messrs. F. Ferrier, D.L. Falwasser, and N. Dodder watched, all the objects suddenly accelerated at astonishing speed and sped up into the blue. These are just a few of the hundreds of like cases. What they are, where they come from and why, is what we are trying to find out. We feel certain that high authorities could tell you many of the answers - we must be patient. *** PLEASE DON'T FORGET OUR ARGENT CALL! Issued from C.S.I. Headquarters:- 1 Nissan Place, Onhunga, AUCKLAND. S.E.5. March, 1955. Htt / Ht. R. Golding 7. Ventnor Street Seatown , Wellington .
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