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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…
Mrs J.A. Wallace and her daughter, reported seeing a strange oval-shaped disc, orange red in colour, performing the following amazing flight pattern. The object, was first seen at 9.30 p.m. hovering, shortly, it darted off at high speed out to sea and then as suddenly returned to its original position. The object repeated this movement a number of times during a period of 45 minutes, finally it climbed steeply upwards and disappeared. A share-milker Mr Dougall, when questioned by Mrs Wallace, confirmed her report. He said that he had seen the same thing for three nights running. "Dunedin Star"

at approx 9.45 p.m. Mr ? who declined to give his name stated that he had seen a weird oval-shaped disc, reddish in colour flying at high speed and great height down the coast. The object was moving too fast for an aircraft and left a shortish white trail, it was in sight for a minute."D.Star"

Anderson Bay 28th May. Dunedin Mr B. Jones reported seeing at 10 a.m. this morning an oval-shaped disc; red dish in colour, moving at high speed in a southerly direction. He said it appeared to be lit from the interior and was climbing slightly as it moved across the sky. He kept it in sight for approx one minute. "DunedinStar"

From 7- to 10 p.m. this night hundreds of Dunedin people reported seeing orange-red discs performing in the night sky. The offices of the Otago Daily Times and Dunedin Star" were swamped with phone and personal callers. People saw the orange-red strangers moving at high speeds, hovering, rising up and down out to sea and climbing steeply away to disappear with amazing rapidity. Now, it was later discovered that a medical student at Gaversham had made a paper balloon "Montgolfier Special" and had test flown it that same evening. The "special" consists of a 4 foot high tissue paper bag with a small can of meths suspended on wires, underneath the bag opening. The builder claims, that he first flew it that Sunday night, and that, the can of meths contained only a few teaspoons of fuel. When this came to the notice of the Otago Daily Times, they gave it much space and claimed that it solved the riddle. C.S.I. has studied the facts and evidences and finds that it is most questionable as to whether the Montgolfier Special caused the many reports. The paper balloon was some flyer to have stayed airborn in the locality for three hours, in widely separated parts of Dunedin. Also, we have the sightings of orange-red discs reported at Warrington, Fort Chambers and Anderson Bay, up to three days previous, at night and day. Perhaps it can now be explained that a fleet of Montgolfier Specials flying in line formation were seen by the Taranaki pilots at 7 a.m. 24th May, these objects too were described as orange-red discs, trailing flames. Anyway Mr X, the builder of the paper balloon was severely scolded by the Dunedin fire-chief, who considered the balloon and meths a serious fire hazard. C.S.I. feels that Mr X's foolish hoax attempt did not fool many, and in the end booneranged. Mr Metcalf C.S.I. Group Leader, Dunedin, also witnessed the flight of a similarly described orange-red disc that night, and has since interviewed many of those people who reported the phenomena. He is satisfied that the balloon just wasn't in the picture; or the cause of the many sincere reports.

Invercargill 31 May Oreti River Four people claimed to have watched a flying saucer for ten minutes Monday night. First sighted at 7 p.m. out to sea, the light, approx size of a tennis ball at first, was moving against a 23 mile-an-hour wind.

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