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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.

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25 NOV 1955

# AIR DEPARTMENT.

CHRISTCHURCH, N.W.4.

23rd November, 1955.

The Director of Civil Aviation. Civil Aviation Administration. Air Department. Private Bag. WELLINGTON.

Attached is copy of letter received from concerning a flying object seen by him on 9th November, 1955.

This letter is forwarded for your information and any recording action which is being undertaken following recent published reports of similar sightings of unidentified flying objects.

(L.E. Duke) REGIONAL AIRWAYS OFFICER. for REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENT.

Director of Intelligence

Re-ground

Vilarech

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