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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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# Extract from "SPACE REVIEW" official publication of I.F.S.B. USA. THE MARS EXPLOSIONS AND THE FLYING SAUCERS In my Letters dated January 13 and 15,1952, to the Polomar Mount and the Lowell Astronomical Observatories and the Editor of the Strolling Astronomer, Journal of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, I predicted that within a day of April 15 1952, coming shortly before the close approach of Mars to Earth, there would be a new arrival of Flying Saucer Space Ships from Mars to Earth, 60 days after the launching date from Mars on February 15. This period is recognizable asthe astronautically calculated and most natural space-time path for a celestial body moving in an orbit to intersect the orbits of Mars and Earth. I predicted further that the launching and arrival dates would be marked by gigantic signals across interplanetary space, like the exploding cloud observed on Mars just one Mars Synodic Period ago on January 15 to 16 1950, which was 60 days before the reported"saucer armada"arrival over Earth on March 17 to 18 1959, shortly before that close approach of Mars to Earth. My predictions were charted out in 1950 from past flying saucer dates and a number symbol was woven into the space traval calculations from basic saucer activities. In my letters to the Strolling Astronomer, dated April 30 and August 3, I made reference to my previous letters predicting flash cloud signals on Mars and the launching and arrival of space ships by a 60 day journey from February 15 to April 15 to 16, 1952. I pointed out that the recorded abnormal clouds observed on Mars of December 8 to 9 and 27,1951, coincided with two of the basic periods of my saucer schedule; the return from Earth to Mars and the preceding last good look over Earth in landing tests on the date of the Mars Aphelion. I also submitted a photocopy of my chart and copies of published articles in which I predicted those very dates so prominently figured in the chart. I submitted a photograph that I took on April 16, 1952 of a huge circle cloud 30 miles in diameter and 15 miles up in the sky, a double track a mile wide, with a lead off trail going northwest towards Alaska--where next morning some high vapor trails of "unknowns" caused a nationwide military special alert. So now, after all this was said and done, the July,1952 issue of the Strolling Astronomer comes out and on pages 99 and 100 describes" the most interesting Martian cloud of all in our records", a big double cloud of dull hue that stood 60 to 90 miles above the surface of the Planet Mars on April 16, 1952, in the region Eridania, which is near where the similar cloud was observed January 15 and 16, 1950 mentioned in the same article. We cannot logically escape the significance of the fact that this abnormal double cloud on Mars and the equally abnormal double cloud circle over Earth occured the very same day, which is also the very same day
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