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