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NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files

NZDF / RNZAF via Internet Archive · 2010-12 · 445 pages · text by GLM-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. 10 …They passed over Christchurch about 1.30 p.m. As the aircraft moved on, they left…
  • p. 24 25 NOV 1955 # AIR DEPARTMENT. CHRISTCHURCH, N.W.4. 23rd November, 1955. The Director of Civil…
  • p. 25 …2 R.D. , CHRISTCHURCH. The Regional Superintendent, Civil Aviation Administration, CHRISTCHURCH AIRPORT. Dear Sir, The following…
  • p. 36 …12168 0182/50652 90/12165 17/16399 CHRISTCHURCH/AUCKLAND: 67/39485 CA 90/34627 CA WELLINGTON…
  • p. 165 …It was also seen by Palmerston North and Christchurch residents in N.Z. about that time…
  • p. 186 …which he witnessed from his home in Christchurch at 10.21 p.m. on the 20th…
  • p. 211 …The "Star-Sun" reporter and his wife were travelling by car towards Christchurch at 3.46…
  • p. 219 …Coutts Island to the back of the Christchurch Airport and though the cloud bank was about…
  • p. 226 …Carter had reported the incident to the Christchurch, N.Z., Press, and later decided to write…
  • p. 255 …had the pleasure of meeting for the first time, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin Representatives, Branch leaders…
  • p. 266 …It made a whizzing noise like a spinning top, they said. # MYSTERIOUS LIGHT IN SKY CHRISTCHURCH…
  • p. 299 …REPRESENTATIVES Two further representatives have been appointed in two southern cities, Christchurch and Dunedin. Representatives are…
  • p. 307 …Secretary 55 Tedder Avenue Christchurch E.3. ## WAS IT A METEOR? ## PERHAPS ONE DAY WE WILL…
  • p. 312 …received two other reports around this time one from a lady in Christchurch and another from…
  • p. 313 …August 25th Christchurch 6.40 p.m. fast moving strange light horizon tal course, in view…
  • p. 314 ## FLYING SAUCERS PAGE 18 November 17th Christchurch 11p.m. two further observers of fast m ing…
  • p. 332 …8.30 Palmerston North, Wellington, and Christchurch. A bright object, reported by many to be round…
  • p. 333 …March 18, Christchurch. Dr C.D. Ellyet, Senior Lecturer in physics at Canterbury University College, claims…
  • p. 359 …Sam Rix, Tauranga; Miss Ethne Hamber, Christchurch; Miss V.E.J.Allan, Dunedin; Dr.Benjamin D…
  • p. 393 …A passenger on the Express from Christchurch saw an unusual light in the sky near Camara…
  • p. 394 …Southland, North Otago, the West Coast and Christchurch. Some people who said they had seen it…
  • p. 396 …was travelling with his son from Christchurch to Wellington on the Saturday night when they saw…
  • p. 397 …The Christchurch observers given an apparent size of half a crown indicating a height of 6000…
  • p. 398 …Nelson Yellow/White 10.30? Cheviot? Blue Green Christchurch Blue S. Hissing Camara Blue 11.8…
  • p. 400 …9 17 minutes Christchurch/New Brighton 29.10.52 9 p.m. 1 Taradale, Napier 30…
  • p. 412 …Cigar South Nil GREEN LIGHT. Moving swiftly. Christchurch 13.10.52 Nil One 5 secs Starline…
  • p. 413 …minutes Saucer Nil Nil Redlights around lights Christchurch 3.11.52 1115 pm Two one minute…
  • p. 414 …Christchurch 6.12.52 1015 pm One 30 secs Disc South Hissing Blue in colour Ryeburn…
  • p. 418 …Williamson, has written to the "Evening Post" to say that the "flying saucer" seen in Christchurch…
  • p. 421 # BLUE DISC THAT HISSED South-Bound 'Saucer' Seen At Three Points PEOPLE in Christchurch, Kyeburn, and…
  • p. 428 …Otago, from the West Coast and from Christchurch, among others. Some people, who said they had…
  • p. 436 …Auckland astronomers and meter- ## Riccarton Run Confused By CHRISTCHURCH, November unsettled nature of the weather heavy…

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- Some believe this year of 1954 will see the saucer middle solved. We are closer to Mars now than we have been for 13 years. But whether we are officially informed or not, Mr Kevhoe's book has something for everybody interested in the mystery. Read it and decide for yourself.

But some day—and there are many who think it will be soon—the public will be told, officially.

The pictures were taken in Utah, by a naval photographer. He took 40 feet of film, through a telephoto lens, before they disappeared. The film was handed over to officials of both the Navy and Air Force. Who spent months analyzing it. They could find no flaw. They could not duplicate them in any way. Fraud was completely ruled out. They could be nothing but saving sources.

And that is not all. Flying saucers have been filmed. The United States Air Force is in the possession of at least one film of round bright objects flying, and manoevring at high speeds.

- A number of saucers were reported over Woomera after the first British atomic tests there. Many have been seen over the battlefields of Korea.

That has remained the policy, the danger of public hivertosis has

city. Before this all six pilots had been sceptics. Now they were convinced. But It was the mass hysteria that worried the Air Force. They immediately clamped down on all reports. Information was classified. Newspapers clamouring for stories through official channels were fobbed off with technical and evasive answers. Nothing was denied—but nothing was admitted.

new at a height of 300 feet over the city of Indianapolis Racing over thousands of startled citizens the bright velvety object streaked towards the north-west trailing a fiery exhaust. The result was pandent medium For a while there was a possibility the film might be given a public showing, but once more the bogey of mass hysteria raised its head and the scheme was discarded. Once more the proof was put away behind closed

any then down. While the strange machine was approaching Indianapolis it had been seen by several airline plints. All soherly told, the same story. They had been flying at about 5000 feet when they first saw it. It changed course and came towards them, dropping to their level. Paced them for a while, then took off over the river.

In two natures police, airport and newspaper switchboards were swamped with frightened calls. The news quickly spread. For a while panic seemed inevitable. Then, when the saucer did not return, the hysteria gradually died down.

If the public in general thought that they were being observed by another race—and if saucers were accepted, their testimony would point to this—the result could be chaotic. THE Air Force has every reason to believe this. On July 14. 1952, a huge oval-shaped machine flew at a height of 5000 feet over the city of Indianapolis. Racing over thousands of startled citizens the bright yellow object streaked towards the north-west trailing a fiery exhaust. The result was pandemonium.

With this weight of evidence you could well ask why saucers have never been, officially accepted. Why no public statement has, ever been made verifying their existence. The reason, says Mr Kevhoe, is because the Air Force is terrified of widespread and hysterical panic should it touch for saucer reality.

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Branch has a questionnaire demanding 42 answers whenever anything in the saucer category

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