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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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## Thinks Outer NAPIER D. TELEGRAPH. Space Has Eye On World JAN 1955 The majority of organisations throughout the English-speaking world investigating reports of strange objects in the sky are now convinced that the only answer to fit all the facts is that the objects are controlled vehicles from the outer space The president of the Auckland organisation, Civilian Saucer Investigation (N.Z.), Mr H. H. Fulton, said this in Napier to-day. Mr Fulton, a sergeant in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, is the son of Mr and Mrs J. L. Fulton, of Napier. His organisation has 110 members. Since its formation in 1952, Civilian Saucer Investigation had actively investigated about 400 New Zealand reports of strange objects in the sky, Mr Fulton said. In addition, his organisation had been exchanging information with kindred bodies overseas. There are about 16 similar organisations in the English-speaking world with which Civilian Saucer Investigation keeps in touch. ## OUTER SPACE VEHICLES "Our investigations over the past two years have convinced us that the strange objects reported can not be explained away as any form of natural or meteorological phenomena, but that they must be controlled vehicles from the outer space." Mr Fulton said. "Nor can we believe that they are meteors or any form of aircraft manufactured in this world." He said that this was now the unanimous opinion of the majority of similar organisations overseas. "It is felt that the United States Air Force, in particular, most probably reached this conclusion after investigating reports of strange objects in the sky up to five years ago," he added. "But we think the United States won't admit it because of the fear of public panic." SEEN IN ITALY Apart from a minor number of hoaxes and reports that could be explained away, it was impossi to reach any conclusion other tha that this world was being visited by controlled aircraft from the outer space, he said. "For example," he said, "the British United Press reported on October 29 of last year that 15,000 people at a soccer match in Florence, Italy, excitedly watched a flight of 'flying saucers' for 30 minutes. The game stopped and the players joined the thousands of spectators in pointing out the cigar and disc-shaped objects flying at a high altitude. The objects were silvery in colour and dropped trails like spider webs. A knowledgeable professor scooped some up and hurried home and analysed the substance. He later announced that it contained a predominant quantity of boron, silicon, calcium and magnesium." Mr Fulton also quoted another report: The United States Ambassador to Italy, Mrs Clare Booth Luce, saw some of the droves of "flying saucers" reported over Italy last October. She said she had seen one zooming over Rome, but could not explain what the object was or represented. She was reported as saying later: "My"Government may soon tell the world about these things." Mr Fulton said that no official statement had ever been made on behalf of the New Zealand Government about strange objects reported in the sky over this country. ## Air Marshal On Flying Saucers LORD DOWDING, chief of the R.A.F. Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, who believes that flying saucers come from planets hundreds of years ahead of the world in scientific knowledge.—N.Z.P.A. ## Mistaken Frenchman LAON (France), January 17 (Rec. 11 p.m.).—M. Jean Faisant, a farmer, was fined. 15,000 francs (about £15) for firing three shots at a neighbour's car one night last summer because he thought the headlamps belonged to a flying saucer. The bullets hit two cows grazing nearby.
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