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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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system or universe. Keyhoe charges that the Air Force is convinced that the saucers are space ships from another world, but that it is covering up because of the fear that such a disclosure would result in widespread panic. The Air Force insist that this is not so -- that it is holding back no important facts from the public. Lt White said the names of persons involved in the sightings are withheld, and reports which devulge the capabilities of our aircraft, radar and electronic equipment are classified. All other information with respect to the sightings is a matter of public record he said. Keyhoe maintains though, that the Air Force has refused to release many analyses of sighting reports. He pointed out that the names and locations connected with the incidents could be deleted if necessary. ## WANTS -- FILM -- RELEASED Keyhoe also claims that the Air Force should release the final intelligence analysis on the Utah film. In connection with this, Keyhoe recently sent a telegram to high Air Force officials charging that since the Air Force had implied that he had misrepresented the analysis of the Utah film, either he or the Air Force was lying. The Times-Herald asked a top Air Force spokesman if Keyhoe had in fact misrepresented the Utah film analysis. He declined to comment. In his telegram --- as in his book --- Keyhoe stated: "The final analysis proved that the saucer formation could not be explain-ed as any known aircraft or other conventional objects. The spokesman was asked if this statement was true or false. He said that to date, the Air Force has neither affirmed or denied it. Keyhoe also contends the analysis concluded the objects were not birds and were not caused by weather conditions. Specifically, Keyhoe claims the intelligence experts reached the following conclusions. (1) The average speed of the objects was somewhere between 653 and 980 miles per hour. (2) All the objects appeared round, of the same size and gave off a blueish-white glow of very high intensity. (3) The objects seemed to be manoeuvring in a circular or elliptical pattern within the group, at very high speeds. (4) because of these high speeds the objects obviously could not be balloons or birds. (5) They were not any type of known aircraft. (6) The sightings could not be explained by any conventional answer. Asked if the Times-Herald could see the final analysis report, an Air Force spokesman said that there were certain reports the Air Force could not make public for security reasons, risk of libel, and other reasons. However the spokesman said the film could be viewed at Wright field Ohio. The Air Force officially neither accepts nor rejects the interplanetary theory. Brig. Gen. Sory Smith, Air Force public relations chief, put it this way: We do not know enough about it to deny that flying saucers exist. Conversely, we have no proof that they do exist. In our investigation we are not discounting the possibility that the saucers--if they exist-- could be interplanetary. We are interested in anyone that may be using the air over the United States. "However, we have no authentic physical evidence that they are interplanetary". Continuing Gen Smith stated: "For the Air Force to admit that flying saucers exist, it would want indisputable evidence of a physical nature. For such an admission itwould want stronger evidence than it has now." Summing up the problem, he said: So far the question of whether flying saucers exist, and if so, what they are, has not been conclusively answered either way." But one thing is certain he added. The Air Force will continue to seek the answer. Meanwhile Keyhoe plains to continue his campaign to compel the Air Force to disclose the facts it is concealing.
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