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NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files

NZDF / RNZAF via Internet Archive · 2010-12 · 445 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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. 186 …Plans are in mind for radio presentation of UFO research and results; the broadcasting people have…

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FROM : R.N.Z.A.F. Station, Whenuapai.

TO : Air Headquarters, Wellington. (Attention D of I).

DATE : 13th April, 1955.

REF : WH:C21/5/AIR

## SIGHTING OF UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT

1. Attached is a copy of a report from Sgt/Nav. McMurtrie concerning the sighting of an unidentified object in the vicinity of Gisborne on March 31st, 1955.

2. Sgt/Nav. McMurtrie is not given to romancing, the report is therefore forwarded for your information.

(A.P. GAINSFORD, Wg.Cdr.) for Group Captain, Commanding, R.N.Z.A.F. Station, Whenuapai.

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