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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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At 7.30 a.m. on July 22nd, three other people as well as Mr. Jerrold saw the vehicle outside the Bureau. Two people confirmed that the car carried no lights, but held two men, one of whom asked the time. A little after 6.30 a.m the men in the car were identified as criminals with Police records, the Police being notified by the person who recognised them. After July 22nd the visitations ceased as suddenly as they had begun, and to date the strange occurrences have not been satisfactorily explained. Mr. Jerrold feels that undue publicity accorded the matter is undesirable, in fact this would be, at best, sensational, and of dubious benefit to Flying Saucer researchers. The happenings around Australia and New Zealand at the same time compelled us to take notice, and to be prepared for anything in the future, no matter how trivial it may appear in the beginning. Whether the strange poundings have any relationship to our mutual investigations remains to be seen, it was only the dual happenings that gave us cause to credit this possibility in the meantime. In conclusion, I would like to pint out that there is no great cause for alarm. Flying Saucers have been visiting this planet for centuries, and I am sure that one day soon they will be an accepted fact and ordinary public knowledge. The future holds tremendous possibilities yet for all mankind, and it is that future that I am most interested in. WRITTEN MARCH, 1954. HAROLD H. FULTON. President, C.S.I. (N.Z.) X X X X X X X X X POSTSCRIPT: OCTOBER, 1954. Recently I learned of the details of another strange incident which involved the lady Director of a long established American Civilian Investigating Group. This lady had not heard of the incidents involving Mr. Jerrold and myself a little over a year earlier. I am not at liberty to give her name as she fears ridicule, but as she published the details in her Group's July, 1954, Bulletin, I will pass them on as presented. Her Organisation has been investigating since 1949, and was one of the last groups to state its conviction that the Flying Saucers are real and of inter-planetary origin. --- "WOMAN AND DOG BADLY FRIGHTENED BY BRILLIANT LIGHT ILLUMINATING GROUND." "On May 25rd, 1954, a woman at ... was sitting up reading as she kept sick watch on her young daughter, ill with a virus illness. The woman's husband was working, the time was between 11.30 p.m. and 12 midnight. She had the radio playing in the kitchen and suddenly noticed that static interference was blocking reception, she went to check on it. She found the interference all over the band, and then noticed an odd, thrumming noise, coming from outside. As she turned from the radio she noticed the back yard lit up as it would be at noon, and after checking at various windows throughout the house, decided that the light came from above. Shadows of shrubbery were at noon position. She then went to check her daughter in a darkened room, and found the light actually filtering through the thin drapes. During her rounds of the house, the dog, usually a friendly, innocuous beast, constantly growled low with her ruff up, ears flattened, and teeth bared. She had first noticed the dog's odd behaviour when the radio interference and the noise outside were first heard. She decided to go outside and investigate. When she approached the door the dog ran in front of her and stood facing her, back to the door, and snarled. She said that she knew that the dog wouldn't have let her out, and she decided then that if the dog was afraid of what was out there, she also should be frightened. She then went back to her chair and sat down, not knowing quite what to do. Her husband was not due to be home until two o'clock. She said that shortly after she sat down the radio started playing normally, the noise outside stopped, and when she went to look out the window the lawn was dark. She had particularly noticed, she said, while the light flooded the yard the garden hose which she had left lying out on the lawn, was clearly seen,
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