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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. 66 …The period was March or April 1943 during the advance of the 8th Army and I…
  • p. 129 …Having made itself familiar with the many theories advanced to explain the "saucers," and having made…
  • p. 130 …most advanced designs and comprehensions. phenomena explanation can account for, or satisfactorily explain away the hundreds…
  • p. 160 …That month the advanced training course was instruction in night flying. The T6's went up…
  • p. 168 …No nation - Russia least of all - would imperil the secrets of an advanced new weapon by…
  • p. 180 …The committee, having made itself familiar with the many theories advanced to explain the Saucers, having…
  • p. 184 …to the 27th Feb., the above mentioned difficulties with duplicating printing machine, and the arrival of…
  • p. 213 …The committee agreed that the first martian should be given the following meal: Oysters, lobsters, a…
  • p. 225 …They were not advancing in a straight line, but with the rapid and short movement of…
  • p. 238 …on the runway which took off rapidly as he advanced to wards it) the firemans etory…
  • p. 263 …friendly, if unintelligible, advances to startled peasants, or nall them to the spot with a hypnotic…
  • p. 274 …The future must hold even greater advancement than we can imagine at present." Let us turn…
  • p. 290 …Some of the explanations advanced from time to time are an insult to an observer's…
  • p. 302 …In other words, they are a good deal nearer today the position I advanced in "Behind…
  • p. 314 …Then I saw advancing great heavens. the dull grey-white shape of an airship. Impossible ??, However…
  • p. 315 …right front I saw another of the same airships advancing. I fixed my gaze on it…
  • p. 322 …Theories that he wasx"chasing" the planet Venis or the Moon were advanced but not accepted…
  • p. 324 …One theory advanced from time to time is that the saucers are some revolutionary type of…
  • p. 327 …It is the only theory advanced to date which has been found to conform acceptably with…
  • p. 336 …One passenger advanced the theory that it might be a message from Mars. At about the…
  • p. 345 …The publishers state that "this is one of the most startling books ever published." The claim…
  • p. 417 …no beings more advanced than us in other worlds. In view of the fact that other…

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AN ALL EMBRACING MYSTERY.

By: H.H. Fulton, President, Civilian Saucer Investigation (N.Z.)

FLYING SAUCERS - MYSTERY EXPLOSIONS - THREADS FROM THE SKY - VIOLENT

STENCHES - AND LOUD POUNDINGS IN THE NIGHT !!

I little realised when I set forth with dire determination and honest enthusiasm to probe the mystery of the Flying Saucers, just how complex and all embracing it would become. For today, after seven years of intense interest, and three of active investigation, I feel absolutely confident in stating that, not only am I convinced that the Flying Saucers are REAL, but that the above mentioned equally strange happenings are closely linked or directly associated with them.

It was not until the formation of Civilian Saucer Investigation (N.Z.) on October 12th, 1952, and the subsequent World-wide publicity which we most fortunately received, that the scope and range of the investigation broadened to a Global basis. Within the first few weeks, correspondence from other countries poured into C.S.I. with the local. C.S.I. was delighted to hear from equally enthusiastic kindred Organisations in Australia, England, and America.

Until a short while ago, there were, to our knowledge, 14 organised civilian investigating groups in these countries, including our own in Auckland, New Zealand. Since early October, however, we have learned that the two largest and best organised groups in the States were disbanding. From personal correspondence, and leading important announcements in the Official Publication of one of these groups( The International Flying Saucer Bureau), we learned that they had discovered the secret of the Flying Saucers and their source of origin. The President of I.F.S.B. sincerely regretted, but he was restricted by HIGH AUTHORITY from passing on the vital information. He further stated that "Everyone should know what I know within a few months, I was profoundly shocked by the facts."

The other U.S. Organisation, of the same name as our own, chose to withdraw without comment, but informed all its members to look elsewhere for further affiliations to Investigating Groups. Such men as Dr. Walther Riedel, Rocket Scientist, and Gerald Heard, author of "THE RIDDLE OF THE FLYING SAUCERS", were leading members of this group. It is clearly evident to members of the C.S.I. (N.Z.), that they, too, had discovered the secret, but like the I.F.S.B., have been reminded where their allegiance lies.

However disappointing this sudden action by the U.S. Authorities to prevent vital information from reaching us, we were not discouraged, because immediately beforehand we had enjoyed free and cordial exchange of information. C.S.I. is well abreast of the latest and pending developments.

It is not my intention to give findings, theories, etc., of whence come the Flying Saucers, so much as to show how and why I consider these other strange incidents are closely allied to them. It is only reasonable to assume that if this planet is subject to visitations by an intelligence from outer space, who have at their command such amazing vehicles of flight, then there should be other happenings, incidents, etc., to add credence and more convincing proof to Flying Saucers.

It is necessary for me to state here that I would never falsely colour or manufacture such evidence, I simply bring these happenings to the notice of the readers, as has been recorded.

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