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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…
Kelburn Weather Office as being most likely the lighted balloon released by them at the exact time (11.3pm) and going in the same direction as reported by the sighter of the orange-coloured object. The observer, however was certain that it was not a plane, a meteor nor a balloon, he said it was travelling approx 800 mph and appeared to have bulges and at intervals gave off an ice-blue light at it tilted on its side.

March 18, Christchurch. Dr C.D. Ellyet, Senior Lecturer in physics at Canterbury University College, claims all Flying Saucer reports have simple explanations. and that there is no evidence whatsoever to support real ones. C.S.I. would like to see how this Gentleman would face up to a gathering of experienced airmen, skilled radar operators, military and civilian highly trained observers, who are prepared to swear that they have seen real strange-shaped flying craft in our skies. It is significant that those eminent scientists appointed by their respective governments to investigate the phenomena, have not found it easy to draw an answer after 6 years of intensive study. They admit today that there is a high probability of there being real saucers. Conclusions based on five minutes study are shots in the dark and will ultimately possibly prove very embarrassing to their originators.

March 19. Nelson. LOUD EXPLOSIONS IN SKY NEAR NELSON. Loud explosions in the sky followed by swishing noises were heard over a wide area to the north-east of Nelson early yesterday afternoon from Whangamoa, inland on the Nelson-Blenheim state highway to Delaware Bay on the coast. Settlers today reported having heard the strange noises. Observers in the Cable Bay area, heard three bangs high up in the sky and saw a wisp on white smoke. Mr P.S.Berkett, a Whangamoa farmer, said that at 2.35 yesterday afternoon he heard loud sooming noises which he thought for a moment might have been caused by a plane out of control. He saw a round flat object of whitish colour which he estimated at about 4000ft. It appeared to be turning over and falling followed by a trail of smoke. Two other people on his property heard the explosions and saw the smoke. One of them Mr. K.Evans, of Auckland. ( In a letter to the Editor Nelson Evening Mail March 22. A Mr Ellis Dudgeon states in first para. "Three of these men, Messrs Berkett, Appleby and Evans, not only heard noises, but saw a round flat object of whitish colour at 4000ft. The object was turning over and over and falling while emitting loud explosions. It ceased falling, remained stationary for some while and finally ascended out of sight. Surely no intelligent observer could believe these antics to be performed by a meteor." If this is correct C.S.I. confirms the writers view, it would be the most outstanding incident recorded over N.Z, attributed to Flying Saucers. We would like more details on this incident.

It may have been pure coincidence that R.N.Z.A.F. Vampire jets gave an interesting aerial display at 35.000ft over the Nelson area 7 days after the above disturbing incident, We wonder?

March 22. Dunedin, (Just received) Letter to Editor "The Evening Star." Sir, I don't want to appear to be rushing in, but I must put up some defence in answer to the article in Fridays"Star' concerning the report of Dr. Ellyet's address in Christchurch regarding flying saucers , If these men who hold the ear of the people were to remain unchallenged, it would appear that what they had to say was correct. When a person of such standing in the educational arena makes a statement such as Dr, Ellyet has, that flying saucers have a straight forward explanation, it appears that he has

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