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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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# "FLYING-SAUCEERS BEING BUILT!" (London Special Service) # STANDARD 5 JAN 1955 "Prototype flying-saucers were built in Germany during the war. I saw one reach a height of 40,000 feet in three minutes near Prague, in 1945," says Klein. FLYING-SAUCERS are top secret weapons of the United States and Russia, according to Georg Klein, former secret weapons expert in the German Ministry of War Production, and now an engineer in Switzerland. Klein says the Russians captured a scale model and top technicians at Breslau, and Walter Miethe, inventor of the V2, fed to the United States. None of the men has returned to Germany. Klein maintains that flying saucers are a continuation of German wartime experiments carried on by German scientists who have either gone to the United States or been captured by the Russians: with a diameter of 48 feet and a 12-jet model that is 126 feet across. Raised wing flaps lift the aircraft like helicopters and the big one can hover by turning its jets directly downwards like the British "flying-bedstead" aircraft. Keim claims. that there are two types of flying-saucer being built today-a five-jet model by John Frost, former colleague of Sir Frank Whittle, have reached speeds up to 1500 miles an hour, and have been inspected by Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, says Klein.
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