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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.
“The Advance”22 pages
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## FLYING SAUCERS PAGE 15 If all this information has been learned of the "saucers" why don't we the people know more about them, how is it that we are still ignorant of many of the facts, what prevents the authorities from telling us, Perhaps there are many reasons, not knowhto us why the World Authorities have been so reluctant and reticent in releasing the truth or those facts they have by now established. They far better understand public reactions to completely revolutionary ideas than is normally accredited them. There is no doubt that the answer will have far reaching repercussions on every field of science, theology, and man's very understanding of life. We consider that the authorities must of established up to 7 years ago that there was a high probability that objects from across the space frontiers were entering the earth's atmosphere and subjecting its inhabitants to close scutiny. There would follow an intence investigation to try to establish the purpose of such visitations, where were they from, did they resemble us in form or something entirely different from out of the chamber of horrors or current science fiction magazine. Granted that the "saucer craft" were as much beyond our present day Jets as the Jets are beyond the first Chinese Kites, so would be the comparison of intelligence and thinking power of the "saucer" beings and ourselves. So it would be hard indeed to wrist the secrets of the Flying Saucer's power and potential from such a skilled operator. It would not be too hard, however, with our present day knowledge of our Sun and its Satellites to determine whether or not these craft were coming from a near-by Planet. We more than strongly suspect they do and indeed perhaps a number. The World Authorities know only too well that when the truth is told to"John Citizen", they the authorities must be ready with all the answers to questions too nummerous to enumerate. They will not tell you until they have established all the facts or are forced to, again we strongly suspect they will have to in the near future. ## A LINK WITH THE SAUCERS. On the 21st April 1953 the Press reported a news release from the President of C.S.I., closely linking the"mystery threads" that fell from the sky and hung over telephone wires and fences at Ongaonga near Hestings with the F.B. Also quoted were overseas cases where a similar substance had been noted to fall from flights of Flying Saucers or mysterious objects. In all instances this greyish-white threadlike gelatinous substance had rapidly vapourized on being handled and disappeared in 24 hours if left alone. We have heard of a number of samples reaching laboratories for analysis but no results have been published. Since the April report other similar reports have come to our notice, an amateur astronomer from Palmerston North watched an object through a telescope performing in the morning sky , shortly later a great deal of this thread-like substance was seen by himself and a witness. It floated down and some was gathered and later studied through a microscope
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