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NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files

NZDF / RNZAF via Internet Archive · 2010-12 · 445 pages · text by 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. 11 …I have never seen a planet move like that. My co-pilot (First Officer S G…
  • p. 22 …I can only add if anyone believes my something they have never seen then here's…
  • p. 50 …they have landed, someplace, but I have never been able to track it down, but as…
  • p. 51 …the space people? A. It was not. Never deliberate on their part, but our aggression and…
  • p. 52 …Well I was taken pretty close to one other planet like that of Venus but never…
  • p. 53 …to class-room, for graduation which is never attained because eternity is eternity. Do they have…
  • p. 62 …lot on this great took it has never been strong yet I gave my standing son…
  • p. 72 …I never read who-dunnits, and I shun thrillers like poison; I suppose I have to…
  • p. 91 …such things for personal files but have never had copies made. I can see the value…
  • p. 97 …g) No peculiarities except that I have never observed its like before. (h) Solid in appearance…
  • p. 126 …moment. "In all my flying I've never seen anything 'like it," he said today. Air…
  • p. 137 …Someplace, but I have never been able to track it down, but as far as I…
  • p. 138 …the space people? A. It was not. Never deliberate on their part, but our aggression and…
  • p. 139 …Well I was taken pretty close to one other planet like that of Venus but never…
  • p. 140 …to class-room, for graduation which is never attained because eternity is eternity. Q. Do they…
  • p. 145 …we are making them," stated Mr. Quarles. Never in the history of our subject have I…
  • p. 151 …I have never said that the Big Four gathered to discuss the question of the UFO…
  • p. 152 …The real issues at Geneva are not yet known, and may never be, but we are…
  • p. 157 …a subjective reason why more stories have never been related, especially so, where PROMINENT PEOPLE are…
  • p. 158 …Wallace's mother, whom we later interviewed, claimed that her son had never been so frightened…
  • p. 167 …the phenomenon of Horseheads, N.Y., may never be known. ## ******* ## THE SWEDISH GHOST ROCKETS by S…
  • p. 172 …ALTHOUGH THE STORY WAS WIDELY REPORTED, IT WAS NEVER PUBLISHED IN FULL OUTSIDE SCANDINAVIA. NOW Flying…
  • p. 174 …I was never more than three or four minutes walk from the girls, and I reckon…
  • p. 176 …to time in the area, but they never heard of them flying at night. "What I…
  • p. 183 …He could not say whether or not it might be a meteor as he had never…
  • p. 201 …Besides, you never know what they could do to you . . . There is no material we know…
  • p. 213 …Church-because of the probability that they never contracted "original sin." ## Flying Discs Sir,—Periodically, Mr…
  • p. 216 …phenomena, there are many individuals who have never reported "sightings" of their own or knowledge. Hope…
  • p. 222 …France, never to be outdone, when it comes to autumn tourist attractions, has also had its…
  • p. 223 …It is necessary for me to state here that I would never falsely colour or manufacture…
  • p. 224 …They said this because they had never seen a modern deep-water diving suit. What they…
  • p. 231 …first reports were immediately followed by a never-ending chain of fantastic stories mostly created by…
  • p. 242 …I do not know what it was, I have never seen such an object before. President…
  • p. 248 …We have never heard of & find it difficult to imagine any meteors or aurorae presenting such…
  • p. 249 …He says that he and his companions never thought of flying saucers, being sure that it…
  • p. 254 …Civil Aviation Dept for some years, but never with the openness and seriousness of these last…
  • p. 256 # ore Observers Confirm # "NORTHERN ADVOCATE" # Seeing Strange Object 凯6 NOV 195本 "I HAVE never seen anything…
  • p. 257 …the man and his family. "I have never seen anything like it in my life," he…
  • p. 263 …or Martians, they reiterate that astronomers have never made any observations which could indicate a high…
  • p. 271 …With this weight of evidence you could well ask why saucers have never been, officially accepted…
  • p. 272 …chances are greater—a planet we have never even heard of. But wherever they come from…
  • p. 273 …I have never seen a saucer—but at least I have seen Mars! Vow the first…
  • p. 280 Acura shall call the existing currency All Min the Prairie neverer less len Qian FILE. for…
  • p. 286 …The world may never know, although he definitely has had a hand in the disk project…
  • p. 302 …observing of evidences, while those who have never seen a flying saucer make a show by…
  • p. 306 …In 18 years of flying I have never seen anything like it. If it had been…
  • p. 307 …and not forgetting those very important ones never to be forgotten sightings. We sincerely hope you…
  • p. 308 …likes light reading as well, but can never find the time now, so great is the…
  • p. 320 …Another official said that the Air Force had never accepted this theory. By classifying sightings as…
  • p. 321 …I never saw it happen before. If the acceleration explanation is true, then the speeds involved…
  • p. 324 …The Air Force has never denied that such a possibility exists. Some of the personnel believe…
  • p. 332 …more closely, I am sure they would never be so keen to rashly debunk it. Right…
  • p. 356 …These have never been confused with flying saucers as some sources of information contend. Recent events…
  • p. 367 …happenings in the sky that science had never been able satisfactorily to explain. Unger, beginning in…
  • p. 373 …Forefathers, the great majority of their ranks never dreamed of or envisaged that which is ordinary…
  • p. 401 …nuclli open to doubt because there have never been reports of them from sailors, astronomers and…
  • p. 416 …to bright red. "I wish I had never seen it," he said. "It's too fantastic…
  • p. 436 …In spite of all the flying saucer reports all over the world, science has never been…
SIR-For the past eight years or so there have been persistent reports of people in various countries having seen "flying saucers."

Unfortunately the first reports were immediately followed by a never-ending chain of fantastic stories mostly created by irresponsible and rather unbalanced sensation, hunters, neurotics, and hoaxers.

Let us have a realistic look at this subject.

I have seen one of these "saucers" not an "eerie light" or a "strange phenomenon"but a real thing, made of duraium and rivets, manned not by "superbees" from Mars, but by ordinary human beings.

During the last two years of World War II I was assigned to an aircraft manufacturing company in Prague as an apprentice of aircraft engineering.

One day (in the closing stages of the war) when I arrived to work. I saw a strange aircraft, oval shaped, and seemingly unpainted, which apparently took off from the neighboring airfield belonging to the Technical Institute of Aeronautics, then occupied by the German Luftfahrtministerium (Air Department),

This particular aircraft accelerated at an incredible speed and gained altitude within a few seconds. Then it slightly banked and turned at what seemed to be almost a right angle.

None of my friends working at the Institute could give me any particulars

After the war I learned from another person (also previously employed by Technical Institute) that this "flying saucer" was equipped with a new type of rocket.

He also drew for me a rough image of the aircraft and explained how it operated. He did not know, however, what happened to the plane when the Russians took over.

Even the U.S. Intelligence officers, who questioned me after I fled from Czechoslovakia in 1948, didn't seem to take much interest in this matter.

"Herr George Klein, wartime aviation adviser to Hitler's Supply Minister Albert Speer, stated in Berlin recently that on February 14. 1945. a German research team tested an aircraft of saucer-shape in Prague

Only recently, by a mere chance, I found this in an aeronautical magazine (Aircraft, August, 1953);

VERYBODY to whom I have spoken about this aeroplane took me and my story with a great amount of scepticism

"Carrying a test crew, the saucer climbed to 40,300ft. in three minutes and attained a level speed of 1375 miles per hour on its first test-flight.

"It is likely that members of the research team fell into Russian hands

It has been admitted (though rather reluctantly) that many countries today are building jet aircraft directly derived from German originals.

I have proof that, for example, the U.S. first swept-wing experimental fighter, Bell X5, is in fact, the Messerschmitt P1101. The newest Russian jet-fighter, MIG19, is an "honest to goodness" Focke-Wulf Ta-183/1 and so on

So I can't help feeling certain that U the Allies of the last war-U.S.Britain and Russia-have captured German scientists and aircraft designers together with plans and prototypes. they also have continued in research and manufacture of planes employing the ultra low aspect ratio (or what is popularly called the "flying saucer")

So far only two countries have admitted to building "flying saucers" Canada (Avro), and Yugoslavia.

But the big Powers are still keeping quiet about their progress in this field

If the "flying saucer" of 1945 could accelerate and travel at a phenomenal speed of 1400 miles per hour, being powered by imperfect and feeble rockets the speed and range of those developed after nine years of research is beyond my wildest imagination

All told, I'd much rather see the Martians than the Russians in possession of such a magnificent weapon.

GEORGE MARIK

Bayswater Road. King's Cross.

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