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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 SAUGERS PAGE 5 I h.1 calculated two years earlier for the main arrival of flying saucers from Mars to Earth three weeks before the close approach of the two Planets this later within a day of the Rio saucer photograph. The earlier April, 1952 issue of the Strolling Astronomer, page 47 and 51, also pages 56 and 57, had described the observations of December 27 1951 as follows: "The most conspicuous cloud, brilliant and striking, on Mars" and December 8 to 9, 1951 the "Extremely brilliant flash and exploding cloud of brief duration on Mars, certainly one of the most extraordinary phenomena ever recorded by students of Mars". These two dates are on my charts, and there nature is surely important enough for interplanetary signals. The fine book,"The Planet Mars",by G.deVaucouleurs, published in London in 1950, says that"Mars remains the only planet whose phenomena cannot be easily interpreted by the sole use of the physical and chemical claws applied to inorganic matter. The clouds on Mars, there correspondence with astronomical aspects and space travel plans between Mars and Earth, are shown to be artificial from every angle of reasoning, and not caused by non-biological natural events on a planet like Mars. The saucer activities on Earth explain the synchronous Explsions on Mars, while the Mars events the origin of the flying saucers. The evidences thus accumulating cannot be ignored much longer. Of all the scientific thinkers, students of astronomy with it's inherent mind-expanding quality of the vastness of space and time and numbers of world evolutionary possibilities, should be the last to suffer the blighting effect of commercializing which brands as unprofitable the adventurous love of science for the sake of pure science itself. It is not at all in the scientific spirit for organized groups of scientists to adopt the obscurantist policies of bigotry which held back science in the dark ages, and to dictate against free discussion of observations, just because it may be contrary to popular belief and may irritate some prejudice. How in the name of science can a "noted" scientist publish that there is "Zero-chance" for space ships to be coming from a neighbor planet? Or after admitting to uncertainty and ignorance about radar detection, then to declare dogmatically that "in the opinion of experts it cannot and does not see flying saucers". How can they know this, since this is the very point of admitted uncertainty? This is on a par with another self contradiction,"invisible clouds that reflect light", posed as the "cause of flying saucers". (Science Service Releases:Science News Letter of August 9,16,30,1952. Forgetfull of the astro-physical fact that any intelligence on Mars arose a billion years ago at the peak of evolutions on that less-massive planet, and would have used their intelligence to invent artificial means of survival through the withering of their planet to the present day, and would be coming across space in the amazing flying disks.
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