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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.
“The Advance”22 pages
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PUBLISHED at Hamilton on [date] 16th December, 1957 SUBJECT: # Flying Saucers Are Again In The News VALKATO TIMES" Flying saucers are again in the news with the dramatic announcement in America and England that two artificial satellites have been seen in the heavens and are circling the earth. The objects according to the reports, are not the creations of earthmen or the romantic delusions of an over-imaginative mind. They are real. The report was received in Hamilton by the secretary of the Flying Saucers Investigators of Hamilton, Mr John E. Stuart. He said: "The report was issued by a flying saucer investigating body in America and from the Flying Saucer Club of England. "The satellites were first seen in January, 1953, and investigation of the matter has been kept secret. There is no indication of their height but, from inquiries, they were not built by anyone on this earth." Mr Stuart was unable to give any further information, but the Flying Saucer Investigators (no connection with the Hamilton Flying Saucer Investigation Society) hope to hear more, of this announcement, which, Mr Stuart said, has been published in all American newspapers.
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