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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.
“Christchurch”32 pages
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This requires a vast knowledge of the magnetic conditions on the universe. The visitors from space are in all probability several light years ahead of us in such knowledge and we are only getting an inkling of what such a force is and how it operates on this earth, which is, after all, nothing but a huge dynamo traveling in three directions at the same time, for it spins, follows an orbit, and wobbles all at once.
Before I complete my next book on this vast and mysterious subject, I hope to have the answers to much of this mystery. Meanwhile it is comforting to know that the Air Force has moved over much closer to our original position and that I need no longer feel grounded among the flying saucers, but can take off from where I left off. I hope I don't shock the critics as badly the second time as I did the first.
Frank Scully
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## WATCHED THROUGH TELESCOPE!!
AN OBJECT LIKE A "FLYING SAUCER " GLOWING IN THE NIGHT SKY OVER NORWICH AND MOVING AT INCREDIBLE SPEED HAS BEEN SEEN THROUGH A TELESCOPE AND THE OBSERVATION IS CONFIRMED BY SEVERAL RELIABLE WITNESSES----such was the headlines of the London "EASTERN EVENING NEWS"Oct 8,1953. Here is the full account of the incident -----
Members of the Norwich Astronomical Society who have been watching throughout the hours of darkness in the hope of catching in their telescopes one of the strange lighted objects whizzing over the city sky have succeeded.
Mr.F.W.Potter, of 25, South Park Avenue, was keeping watch on Tuesday evening at 7.15 with a $ 3 \frac{1}{2} $ in refractor telescope when a very bright object appeared in the south-west as a yellow light of great size. He adds -- I focussed upon it and found the light was given from the object and was not reflected sunlight, as I first believed. It was an internal light being sent out from a fixed apparatus situated around the dome
The rays or beams of light could be seen distinctly from the dome and attached directly beneath it was a much larger and flattened dome with a protruding band running in a circumference around its edge. This was clearly seen in the telescope by the rays of light thrown out from the apertures in the top dome. The underneath of the large flattened bottom dome was hollow and appeared to be glowing red, but there was no vapour trails or gases to be soon.
It did not rotate but kept the same portion of the dome towards the telescope until it changed its angular course. Then it gave me a chance to visualize another of the apertures that previously had been hidden from view. It was them travelling to the north-east and dissappearing from view. Mr. Potter added that the night sky was perfect with no cloud and all constellations visible. Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 445 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.