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NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files

NZDF / RNZAF via Internet Archive · 2010-12 · 445 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 11 …I have never seen a planet move like that. My co-pilot (First Officer S G…
  • p. 22 …I can only add if anyone believes my something they have never seen then here's…
  • p. 50 …they have landed, someplace, but I have never been able to track it down, but as…
  • p. 51 …the space people? A. It was not. Never deliberate on their part, but our aggression and…
  • p. 52 …Well I was taken pretty close to one other planet like that of Venus but never…
  • p. 53 …to class-room, for graduation which is never attained because eternity is eternity. Do they have…
  • p. 62 …lot on this great took it has never been strong yet I gave my standing son…
  • p. 72 …I never read who-dunnits, and I shun thrillers like poison; I suppose I have to…
  • p. 91 …such things for personal files but have never had copies made. I can see the value…
  • p. 97 …g) No peculiarities except that I have never observed its like before. (h) Solid in appearance…
  • p. 126 …moment. "In all my flying I've never seen anything 'like it," he said today. Air…
  • p. 137 …Someplace, but I have never been able to track it down, but as far as I…
  • p. 138 …the space people? A. It was not. Never deliberate on their part, but our aggression and…
  • p. 139 …Well I was taken pretty close to one other planet like that of Venus but never…
  • p. 140 …to class-room, for graduation which is never attained because eternity is eternity. Q. Do they…
  • p. 145 …we are making them," stated Mr. Quarles. Never in the history of our subject have I…
  • p. 151 …I have never said that the Big Four gathered to discuss the question of the UFO…
  • p. 152 …The real issues at Geneva are not yet known, and may never be, but we are…
  • p. 157 …a subjective reason why more stories have never been related, especially so, where PROMINENT PEOPLE are…
  • p. 158 …Wallace's mother, whom we later interviewed, claimed that her son had never been so frightened…
  • p. 167 …the phenomenon of Horseheads, N.Y., may never be known. ## ******* ## THE SWEDISH GHOST ROCKETS by S…
  • p. 172 …ALTHOUGH THE STORY WAS WIDELY REPORTED, IT WAS NEVER PUBLISHED IN FULL OUTSIDE SCANDINAVIA. NOW Flying…
  • p. 174 …I was never more than three or four minutes walk from the girls, and I reckon…
  • p. 176 …to time in the area, but they never heard of them flying at night. "What I…
  • p. 183 …He could not say whether or not it might be a meteor as he had never…
  • p. 201 …Besides, you never know what they could do to you . . . There is no material we know…
  • p. 213 …Church-because of the probability that they never contracted "original sin." ## Flying Discs Sir,—Periodically, Mr…
  • p. 216 …phenomena, there are many individuals who have never reported "sightings" of their own or knowledge. Hope…
  • p. 222 …France, never to be outdone, when it comes to autumn tourist attractions, has also had its…
  • p. 223 …It is necessary for me to state here that I would never falsely colour or manufacture…
  • p. 224 …They said this because they had never seen a modern deep-water diving suit. What they…
  • p. 231 …first reports were immediately followed by a never-ending chain of fantastic stories mostly created by…
  • p. 242 …I do not know what it was, I have never seen such an object before. President…
  • p. 248 …We have never heard of & find it difficult to imagine any meteors or aurorae presenting such…
  • p. 249 …He says that he and his companions never thought of flying saucers, being sure that it…
  • p. 254 …Civil Aviation Dept for some years, but never with the openness and seriousness of these last…
  • p. 256 # ore Observers Confirm # "NORTHERN ADVOCATE" # Seeing Strange Object 凯6 NOV 195本 "I HAVE never seen anything…
  • p. 257 …the man and his family. "I have never seen anything like it in my life," he…
  • p. 263 …or Martians, they reiterate that astronomers have never made any observations which could indicate a high…
  • p. 271 …With this weight of evidence you could well ask why saucers have never been, officially accepted…
  • p. 272 …chances are greater—a planet we have never even heard of. But wherever they come from…
  • p. 273 …I have never seen a saucer—but at least I have seen Mars! Vow the first…
  • p. 280 Acura shall call the existing currency All Min the Prairie neverer less len Qian FILE. for…
  • p. 286 …The world may never know, although he definitely has had a hand in the disk project…
  • p. 302 …observing of evidences, while those who have never seen a flying saucer make a show by…
  • p. 306 …In 18 years of flying I have never seen anything like it. If it had been…
  • p. 307 …and not forgetting those very important ones never to be forgotten sightings. We sincerely hope you…
  • p. 308 …likes light reading as well, but can never find the time now, so great is the…
  • p. 320 …Another official said that the Air Force had never accepted this theory. By classifying sightings as…
  • p. 321 …I never saw it happen before. If the acceleration explanation is true, then the speeds involved…
  • p. 324 …The Air Force has never denied that such a possibility exists. Some of the personnel believe…
  • p. 332 …more closely, I am sure they would never be so keen to rashly debunk it. Right…
  • p. 356 …These have never been confused with flying saucers as some sources of information contend. Recent events…
  • p. 367 …happenings in the sky that science had never been able satisfactorily to explain. Unger, beginning in…
  • p. 373 …Forefathers, the great majority of their ranks never dreamed of or envisaged that which is ordinary…
  • p. 401 …nuclli open to doubt because there have never been reports of them from sailors, astronomers and…
  • p. 416 …to bright red. "I wish I had never seen it," he said. "It's too fantastic…
  • p. 436 …In spite of all the flying saucer reports all over the world, science has never been…
from low cloud, but not those seen on clear nights or by day. Some people, specially round about six p.m., see spots in front of their eyes, but it is unusual for ground crew, air crew and radar operators, plus a good sprinkling of civilian witnesses, all reporting independently, to see the same bright disc doing the same antics in the same place at the same time unless there is really something there. Yet this has happened. In the absense of absolute proof of the reality or otherwise of flying saucers, we should as Kickshaws suggests maintain an open mind on the subject. (The President of C.S.I. recently had the pleasure of visiting Mr. & Mrs Bonallack and spent two very pleasant evenings discussing the progress of flying saucer research among other things).

Strange Object In Sky (Letter to Editor, Dominion, Wellington 25 Jan. Sir, Though one is lead by some authorities to disbeleive in the flying saucer theory I, for one, and probably many more, believe it to be correct. To help me believe further, while at Waitarere Beach on Dec 30 last, at 10.45 a.m.; my neighbour and his friend, sitting in a car looking out to sea, noticed an object like a plane coming in from the sea. When my attention was called to it, the object appeared to be changing course, not as a plane in a circular fashion, but approx in a vee course. As I watched it, it appeared to tilt and flash in the Sun as it changed course, and went out to sea in the same direction from which it had come or arrived. Ohakea, Nelson, N.A.A.C. and the overseas base was checked with, but no planes were reported in that area at that period. It could not have been a plane, as the wind was blowing in off the sea, and no sound of plane engines could be heard at any stage. A "met" balloon could not have acted in this way this object did, as when it reversed its direction it would have to have gone against the wing. Four people saw this object at the same time in the same area, and were not seeing spots before there eyes. If this was not a saucer what was it. (Many thanks Brian Maökrell for also sending in this report)

Jan 28 1954 A Brilliant Meteor . Certainly a very bright meteor or meteors fell towards the south-east over the South Island leaving a very colourful display and must of been seen by hundreds that night. C.S.I. thanks all those who sent clippings in, it was extremely interesting to see how many reported the occurrence as due to Flying saucers. Some Astronomers say that every time a meteor falls up to 500 reports of saucers pour in. This we know as nonsense. From the large writeup this recent received in the main South Island Dailies there was only one mention of Flying Saucers.

February 9 . The Auckland Star gave C.S.I.'s Statistical Release a front page write up . The contents of this release accompany (as a loose leaf) the Quarterly Review.

February 12 Whangarei. STRANGE LIGHTS FLEW IN ARC OVER WHANGAREI. Two strange lights which could of been flying saucers were seen to fly in an arc over Whangarei last night. They were watched by two business men, Messrs T.H.Busck and R.E.A.Laery and two Auckland visitors who saw them Rust Lane at 10.50 P.M. Mr Busck who saw the objects first, had time to draw the at-tention of his friends to them and the quartet saw two fairly faint yellow lights describe an arc across the town and disappear to the south-east. Mr Busck said this morning that the two lights appeared from the general direction of Parahaki moving side by side in more or less parallel flight. There was no noise. They appeared to be at great altitude and a long way off. From their pace and distance covered they could of been outside the

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