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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…
## LATEST FROM THE AMERICAS'

Via Mr C.H.Marck, C.S.I."Observer" Colorado U.S.A.

May 10th I954, Frank Edwards announced over his news commentary programme, "What happened to the flying saucer", Wright Field Dayton, Ohio, has closed the lid on all saucer sightings and developments, Lately in Peru, South America, the people there are seeing the saucers daily, in fact they have seen then so many times they think the saucers have a base nearby. All sighters agree that the discs appear to be interplanetary craft. May IIth--- An article in the "Anchorage Daily" Alaska, states, several pepple in that area saw some glowing circular objects, Air Force officials stated they had no idea what they were. May I3th. Major Keyhoe guest speaker on Frank Edwards programme stated: In the closing week of March I954 Secretary of the Air Force, Harold E. Talbott, was on a flight to Palm Springs California, on this flight Talbott's plane was approached by a silvery disc (daylight) to within a 1000 ft below and aft. Sec., Talbott ordered the plane to close in with the silvery disc, when the pilot attempted this the 'Saucer' streaked off and out of sight. Keyhoe also stated, "Two artificial Satellites are going round the earth in space. Government scientists are going to try and find out just what is going on, it is time the peoples new the facts".

July 2. Saucers sightings are really increasing, many are making banner headlines in local papers but are not being put on Wire Services. On May 18th Frank annourood-- A news-letter giving all saucer news is about to be published monthly. Director Mr Leonard H. Stringfield; (ex Air Force) P.O. Box I855 Cincinnati 27,Ohio. Sub 2 Dollars per year. This NewsLetter gives the very latest saucer sightings, Pentagon and Wright Field Developments. On June 8th Mr Stringfield phoned Lt.Col.John O'Mara,Deputy Commander of Intelligence at Wright Field. In 16 minutes he asked many questions. Here are some of the answers that were published in the July 2 issue, of the News-Letter.

[1] Avarage of 700 sightings are reported to the Air Force a week. [2] There are 87 cases under "special analysis".

(3) Over 1000 of the nations leading scientists are working on government saucer projects.

(4) Dr. Clyde Tombough and Dr. Lincoln La Paz are heading the project in White Sands, New Mexico. Here scientists are tracking two artificial satellites circling the earth.

(5) Secretary Talbott's aircraft was paced by "Unidentified Flying Objet over Fresco California in March 1954.

Letter dated July 10th

Washington D.C. has been visited by saucers several times in the last few months, Shortly after midnight on May 12 1954, Air Police at Washington National Airport watched two large glowing objects, which zipped into view at high speed, made three passes between 12.45 and 2.08 a.m. the following morning. The objects came across the nations! Capital from the northeast, veered off and swung southward. The Air Policeman watched the objects through night glasses. He reported that they were apparently circular in shape, and that they glowed with pulsating lights. Said the Air Force spokesman, don't call them 'Flying Saucers', they are "Unidentified Flying Objects". On the following afternoon an electronics expert was checking some special equipment in Washington. Shortly after I.p.m. the equipment picked up some sort of huge object at great altitude, approaching the city at a speed of 150 - 170 m.p.h. It came over the capital at an altitude of 10 miles, moved slowly about and was recorded on the equipment for almost three hours.

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