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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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P.O. BOX 99 Telephone 49-800 Telegraphic Address: ARMY In replying please quote ARMY 270/1/438/G ARMY HEADQUARTERS WELLINGTON C.1 NEW ZEALAND 3 September 1954. Air Department, WELLINGTON. REPORT - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT. 1. Reference telephone conversation Flt Lt Golding - Major Aitken of 2 September 1954. 2. Enclosed are a report and a rough sketch submitted to Headquarters Northern Military District in Auckland by Manurewa. 3. Headquarters Northern Military District report that served in the RNZAF during the 1939-45 War and that his credibility and intelligence vouched for. ENCL: Major-General, CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF.
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