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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…
## Even some scientists can't yet make up their minas

## Staff correspondent

# SINOINCINCINCINC

CRCHED on a wooden step in an Auckland garden I manoeuvred a telescope and stared one-eyed at Mars. The red planet glared back. Then, like a Cyclops turning, it glided slowly from right to left, of sight. . . Yes, Mars has had us wondering ever since it was discovered. Centuries of argument we made it the best-known twinkle in the sky.

we made it the best-known twinkle in the sky. It has been a made-to-measure heaven for the science fiction writers, for it seems certain there is life of one sort on Mars. Where scientists leave off with vague talk of rare atmosphere, lichens and mosses, the con- tent of fiction goes daily on.

Now Mars is in vogue with a venience as one mystery is added to their. Mars, say some, may be the one of that Will O' the Wisp of the universe, the flying saucer. That was why I reared at 8.30 on a winter evening to see magnified 200 times—a fiery red ball in black of the night. I have never seen a saucer—but at least I have seen Mars! Vow the first hysteria is over and people paint spots on their spectacles or stars in eyes know them for what they are. It be worth looking at the conclusions shed on flying saucers by reliable inter-

## Can't be wiped off

MAN whose words carry weight is Professor Harry Messel, 32-year-old bearded radian in the chair of physics at Sydney velocity, an acknowledged world authority cosmic ray research. He says:

Evidently they are not sure "I have an open mind, with no great feeling one way or the other. It's possible, of course, that the facts about saucers were long ago tracked down and the results have long been known in top secret defence circles of more countries than one. It may be regarded as advisable to give people at large no clue

After their brief life in space, in conditions which saucer men would have to face, the fruit flies were radically changed. "There have been some peculiar looking offspring," said the professor. "Big heads, little heads, two heads, one head with two noses, extra legs. And the peculiarities seem to increase and carry on through the descendants."

through the development He said it was possible that the grandchildren of present day jet pilots would develop physical peculiarities, such as big heads on little bodies, and some might even have two

"The whole subject of flying saucers just t be airily wiped off or scoffed at. Anially-sponsored research group in Canada, example, is making a very active and rough study of saucer reports in that coun- Put it this way. If saucer reports were result of hallucination, strange atmospheric optical effects, or even of unscheduled sight-

## Mars. . a fiery red ball in the black of the

## night.

There is a belief that the first nation to design and build a successful flying saucer will have immediate air supremacy. "Give us three years," say the Americans, "and we will have a saucer that can do 2000 m.p.h. with power to take off vertically, hover, fly sideways and backwards."

same time as fantastic have been made Claims almost as fantastic have seen them come in the past—and sceptics have seen them come true. What are we to think at the moment? Do flying saucers exist? Are they man-made, or flying saucers exist? Hoax or hallucination? From another world? Hoax or hallucination? Until the last five per cent of saucer sightings are successfully written off, the case cannot be closed. And meantime, perhaps we'd better keep one eye on Mars—one never knows!

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