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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. 152 …into a world crisis. (2) concurrent and open discussion of East-West differences, which if effected…
  • p. 173 …He then opened a kind of hatch on the top of the "rim" which encircled the…
  • p. 185 …So keep an open and ever broadening mind, it is not a bit of good trying…
  • p. 212 …Thomsen is open-minded on the subject but is quite happy to explain from now till…
  • p. 213 …WHAT SOURCE. "Open Mind" (Palmerston North) says it is evident that Mr. Thomsen has not read…
  • p. 273 …Evidently they are not sure "I have an open mind, with no great feeling one way…
  • p. 327 …are keeping an open mind on the source of the objects. I believe, he said, from…
  • p. 331 …we should as Kickshaws suggests maintain an open mind on the subject. (The President of C…
  • p. 345 …Many people all over the world have an open mind on this question and are ready…
  • p. 376 …If any person has an open mind on the subject and is prepared to weigh out…
  • p. 397 …thing but one has to have an open mind. The trouble with these reports from all…
  • p. 405 …Briefly, while they are prepared to have an open mind on the subject, I think it…
  • p. 421 …I can't give any explanation off hand." ## 'An open mind' THAT looks to be quite…
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of the staff of the power board, the said that the troubled men would search lights when working on the power boards at night strike, but he did not know whether they had been out that night. I am firmly convinced that what I saw much have been a flying saucer.

It must have been flying very low when I thought it was one of the station lights; there was absolutely no sound.

I have often thought I should report this matter.

With so many foreigners coming into the country it makes one wonder if there was something sinister about the search light being used that might.

The Power Board will probably have a record of all the night work done by its employees.

The fallowing is a plan of our house, the railway station, and

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