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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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# 'Flying Saucer' Man Was Dark, With Long Hair (N.Z.P.A.-Rauter-Copyright.) OSLO, Aug. 25 (Rec. 9am). Police in north and central Norway made a search for a "flying saucer" from which two young women reported seeing a dark, long-haired, foreign-looking man emerge while they were picking berries on nearby hills. They described the man as appearing to be friendly and anxious to talk, but he was unable to understand English, French, or German. After the man had vainly tried to explain himself with words, gestures, and drawings, he climbed into the "saucer," which rose straight into the air, and disappeared. The north Norway newspaper "Helgeland" reported the women, who are two sisters aged 24 and 32, as saying that the "saucer," about 16 feet in diameter and looking like two saucers put together, started with a slight humming sound like a bumblebee, and rose at great speed. The man wore a kind of khaki overall without buttons, but possibly with a belt. The women, who live at Mosjoen, at first suppressed the story for fear of being disbelieved, then one told her husband. When the police questioned the sisters separately, both told a similar story, with only minor divergences. They said the man showed them the saucer on the ground in a hollow. The police decided that the flying saucer occupant must have been just a beautiful dream. Three policemen plodded solemnly into the hills accompanied by the sisters and surveyed the scene of the brief encounter. While the police could not think for a moment that the sisters were lying (their story, told by each separately, hung together too well for that), they could find no sign that the spot had been in recent use as a saucer-park. A male cousin of the sisters told the police that the sisters before the "incident" had been reading and discussing a book by D. Leslie and G. Adamski called "Flying Saucers Have Landed." # AN AMERICAN MARTIAN LONDON, Aug. 26. (Rec. 9am). According to the Oslo correspondent of the "Daily Mail" the "space man" in the "flying saucer" whom two Norwegian sisters reported that they had found behind a blackberry bush in the hills above Mosjoen, north Norway, on Tuesday, was an American airman in a helicopter. Even after Air Force assurances, the sisters, Miss Edit Jacobsen, aged 24, and Mrs. Aesta Solvang, aged 32, refused to believe that it was not a flying saucer they had seen. Edit insisted: "We met a Martian and it was a wonderful experience." # EXPECTATION OF LANDINGS BY FLYING SAUCERS (P.A.) AUCKLAND, To-day. Mr. A. H. Fulton, president of Civilian Saucer Investigation (N.Z.), of Auckland, expects flying saucers from Mars to begin landing any day now. Early in the year, Mr Fulton said he expected a rush of flying saucers from late May to early August. Now the flying saucer investigators claim a victory. They say their February prediction of a "major flurry" of flying saucer sightings has come true. Yesterday was to be the peak day for sightings, because to-day the earth and Mars would be opposite the sun and only 40,300,000 miles apart. The theory was said to be based on the past experience of these "oppositions." and the belief that the saucers come from Mars. Basically, says Mr. Fulton, his prediction has proved correct, although as a result of information received from overseas he now expects the peak sightings a few weeks hence rather than yesterday. This will be in accord with past overseas experience, he says.
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