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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…
Rotorua June 28th (Rotorua Post 29th)

The following most unusual phenomena in the sky was witnesses during an power blackout in Rotorua this night. A lady in Rotorua on going to the front room of her house in Maida Vale Street, to see how much of the town was effected by the black out, was amazed to see a bright star, slightly above the hill behind Whakarewarewa, suddenly, "take off" on a circuit to the right and return to its place. It remained there for a minute or two and then dived to the left, returning to its original position. Wanting a corroborative eye, she called her neighbour's attention to it, and they both watched from the front gate. After several minutes the star obliged by completing a circle, still returning to the same position. Later in the evening, a star, close above the first one, also swerved off to the right and returned. The family were watching for about half-an-hour. The star was low in the sky, but was too high to be anything other than a star, said the lady.

## Auckland, Takapuna July 5th

Mr Denis J.G.Saunders reports to C.S.I. that he witnessed the flight of a blue-green flatish object flying at high speed in a northerly direction at 9.53pm. and again at 10.5pm. flying south at a greater altitude. The object when first seen was estimated to be approx 10,000 ft,blue-green in colour, and appeared to give off a pale blue flame. Mr Saunders phoned the Auckland Star the following morning, but the lady reporter taking the information appeared to treat the informer as the perpetrator of a hoax. Mr Saunders was rather annoyed by her mocking attitude. His report was not publisded.

## Hamilton July 8th

At 3.30pm on the 8th July the "Waikato Times" received a minor deluge of phone calls from people wishing an explanation of the sudden appearance of high vapour trails in the sky. Rukuhia met office stated that there were no jets in the area, they wrote the phenomena off as cloud effects. However, Mr H.E. Silvester of Horsham Downs stated in a letter to the "Waikato Times" "I and two others saw a blurred object moving at tremendous speed ahead of the forming vapour trail. We also heard the distinct whine of engines". He says that he and his companions never thought of flying saucers, being sure that it was a jet aircraft. They are still sure it was a jet aircraft not in touch with Rukuhia Flying Control. "We have seen vapour trails above Wanganui and surrounding districts from jet aircraft and the spectacle seen here was an exact replica, no amount of explaining away as a cloud effect will convince us otherwise. "I may add that over Horsham Downs there was a large expanse of blue sky which made our observation all the more clear and certain".

There has been quite a number of these reports lately, particularly from Australia where the reports of flying saucers is phenomenal. It was reported that the vapour trails in Hamilton skies went straight up and down in places just so has been the reports of high forming vapour trails over Brisbane Melbourne and Sydney of recent date. In most cases the Air Force have claimed that no jets were in the area. Just what is making these trails?

## Hamilton 10th July. SIGHTING OF OBJECT AT CLOSE QUARTERS

A full report has just come to hand of a remarkable close up sighting by Mr John E. Stuart of Hamilton, a person I know reasonable well, met for the second time approx 3 weeks ago and whos integrity I have no reason to doubt. Hear is Mr Stuart account. "I had been working with my co-organiser Miss Doreen Wilkinson, until approx 2 am, on a theory regarding the solution of Flying Saucers. I retired to bed, after seeing Miss Wilkinson to her taxi

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