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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.
“Nevers”58 pages
- 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.
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## 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
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"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…
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- 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…
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# Getting Ready For The Flying Saucer Season
WASHINGTON, June 1 (Rec. noon). Air Force officials said today that reports of "flying saucers" had fallen off greatly since 1952. They believed more scientific investigating and better public education were responsible.
So far this year only 87 "sightings" had been reported, but the "flying saucer season"—which coincided with the July-August meteor showers—was just coming in. Reports of "flying saucers" increased when meteors were most common.
The Air Force received 1700 reports of sightings in 1952. Last year the figure fell to 429.
The Air Force said it was still unable to explain about 10 per cent. of the sightings. The idea that some drift in from outer space still received some attention, but the Air Force said it had no such evidence.
"No object or particle of an unknown substance has been received and no photographs of detail have been produced," the Air Force said.
# Cameras for Flying Star-Sun 3-12-53 Saucers
N.Z.P.A.—Reuter—Copyright. WASHINGTON. December
WASHINGTON, December 1.
The United States Air Force announced to-day that it has installed "flying saucer cameras" to help find the explanation of the mysterious radar-confirmed objects reported streaking through the skies.
The cameras, set up at Air Force bases in thirty-three States, are designed to analyse the moving lights to determine whether they are merely insubstantial glows or come from identifiable material objects.
## Official Concern
The announcement reflected the Air Force's official concern over the number of unexplained reports of flying saucers which it has not been able to write off either as man-made objects or known phenomena. These sightings have been made both visually and by radar.
About seventy-five cameras had been installed in areas where "saucers" have frequently been reported in the past. They are called "diffraction grating" devices which separate light into its component parts and register them on film.
Astronomers use similar equipment to determine the composition of stars.
## Since 1947
"Flying saucers" have been reported sporadically since 1947 but the Air Force has received the reports with scepticism. It reiterated to-day that the majority of all reported sightings have been found to be fighter aircraft, balloons, or other such objects, or to be meteors and planets.
In a new "fact sheet" the Air Force emphasised that "unexplained aerial phenomena are not secret weapon missiles or aircraft developed by the United States."
It also stated that "no authentic physical evidence has been received establishing the existence of space ships from other planets."
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