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NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files

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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.

  • p. 14 …a "Aying saucer" over the Hawock North Hills is claimed to have been obtained by Mr…
  • p. 15 …to be coming slowly down towards the hills. It bore the appearance, she said, of a…
  • p. 20 …They first noticed the light high above the hills behind Bay View. It hovered there for…
  • p. 21 …To-night it will set shortly before 9 o'clock, though, with hills to the west…
  • p. 28 …very powerful one, flashing on the Patterang hill, about a mile distant. First it kept pointing…
  • p. 61 …step they shall be Sahin Discover the Hills will. Often and thing will be set free…
  • p. 72 …On reaching the brow of a hill he saw a brightly lit object coming toward him…
  • p. 94 …the following from the top of Kinbarni Hill : at 3: 32 p.m. shortly after a…
  • p. 125 …large star low down over the Wellington hills drew the attention of a prominent Auckland business…
  • p. 130 …climbed a hill in Lancashire to photograph birds. They set their camera to infinity and directed…
  • p. 132 …Both then disappeared slowly behind the outline of the hill. 北川羌族自治县
  • p. 175 …CLOSE-UP OF THE GREAT GALLOWAY HILLS MYSTERY - WHAT CAN THIS THING BE? This is reported…
  • p. 188 …On February 15 this year two schoolboys were reported to have climbed a hill in Lancashire…
  • p. 189 …Stewart, a farmer, of Saddle Hill, one of the men who saw the fire ball (or…
  • p. 212 # SCIENTIST EXPLAINS STRANGE SKY SIGHTS On top of Kelburn hill two silver observatory domes gleam in…
  • p. 225 The objects that landed were not Meteorites, because they travelled horizontally, manoeuvred around hills, stopped in…
  • p. 233 …This club formed by students of a Primary School, One Tree Hill. Master Kelvin Barton advised…
  • p. 249 …see a bright star, slightly above the hill behind Whakarewarewa, suddenly, "take off" on a circuit…
  • p. 251 …to see the object disappear over a hill in a manner that suggested to him, would…
  • p. 256 …He was on top of the hill in Commons Street, Oneraht, when the sun had just…
  • p. 257 …and at the time was on a hill overlooking the countryside. He was looking toward where…
  • p. 258 …over the penisula and disappeared over Saddle Hill. A boy said it looked like a football…
  • p. 267 …It was a big fireball and, though it seemed to be over the Karori hills, must…
  • p. 278 …Three policemen plodded solemnly into the hills accompanied by the sisters and surveyed the scene of…
  • p. 312 …as far a part as Hamilton East, Hill-croft Whitiora, and Maeroa and which occured right…
  • p. 320 …This corresponds with the rotation of a parabolic antenna located on a nearby hill. As the…
  • p. 327 …vapor, flashing across the sky over Box Hill at 2.30p.m. I saw what appeared…
  • p. 335 …Scoffers were con- founded, however, by the unusual story of a settler at Kauroo Hill. It…
  • p. 336 …time the airship had disappeared over a hill. The object was also seen at Mahono. The…
  • p. 363 …a south-East direction near the Adelaide hills. In the meantime I called my wife who…
  • p. 368 …Southwest had seen flash across the bare hills in straight, silent, horizontal flight, Unger recalled a…
  • p. 379 …191953 A group of people at surrey hills yesterday reported seeing a four minute display by…
  • p. 392 …was well above the line of the hills. When he resumed his journey he saw the…
  • p. 393 …The main light, however, seemed to hover over the Hokonui Hills. For some time it swung…
  • p. 396 …blue object was seen over the Port Hills at Christchurch at 11.45 p.m. A…
  • p. 422 …Brown, of Hill Grove, Naenae, their daughter Alice and her friend Ron Middleton, all saw a…
  • p. 430 …was even above the line of the hills. When he resumed his journey he saw the…
  • p. 431 …motion well above the outline of the hills. It was going in an easterly direction. I…
  • p. 436 …bearing says, a church spire or a hill, we can draw a line on a map…
  • p. 439 …disappeared in a northerly direction over the hills of Khandallah. The object was viewed from the…
  • p. 444 …Sugarloaf hill near Napier DATE: 30/10/52 TIME: approx 9.30pm. A/C.TYPE(s…

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RECOMMENDED READING FOR YOUR FLYING We regret we cannot SAUCER LIBRARY. supply books listed

ISSUE CIVILIAN SAUCER INVESTIGATION (NZ) P.O.BOX 1914 AUCKLAND N.Z. 1/2/1954

"THE RIDDLE OF THE FLYING SAUCERS" by GERALD HEARD, published by CARROLL & NICHOLSON; LONDON. 1950. ( 12/6.NZ)

"IS ANOTHER WORLD WATCHING" by GERALD HEARD, published BANTAM BOOKS NEW YORK, Book No 1079 1st printing March 1953 ( revised and more up to date edition of The Riddle of the Flying Saucers ) (25 cents)

"BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS by FRANK SCULLY, published by VICTOR GOLLANCZ LTD LONDON 195C (11/- NZ) (SCULLY is preparing a new book)

"THE FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL" by MAJOR DONALD E.KEYHOE. USMC Retired, pub lished by FAWCETT PUBLICATIONS ING NEW YORK 1950. (Book No 107 Gold Medal Book) also pub. by HUTCHINSON. & CO LONDON 1950. (2/- NZ)

"THE COMING OF THE SAUCERS" by RAY PALMER & KENNETH ARNOLD, published privately by the authors. ( Ray Palmer RT. 2 Box 36 Amherst Wisconsin. 85. 1952

"THE MYSTERY OF OTHER WORLDS REVEALED" Fawcett Book No 166 (75 cents) Three sections, Space Travel, Flying Saucers, Rocket Development (1953.)

"FLYING SAUCERS" by DONALD.H.MENZEL, published by PUTNAM & CO LTD LONDON 1953, 26/- NZ. ( This Professor of Harvard University has natural phemome na explanation for all Flying Saucers .)explanations not accepted by any Government Sponsored or Civilian, investigating agency.

"FLYING SAUCERS HAVE LANDED" by DESMOND LESLIE & GEORGE ADAMSKI, published TERNER LAURIE LONDON 1953 ( 12/6 NZ) serialised in Australasian POST, 7 weekly issues 19th Nov------- 31st Dec 1953.

"FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE" by MAJOR DONALD E.KEYHOE, published by HENRY HOLT & CO NEW YORK. 83. (highly recommended for up to date, most authoritive book on subject, the most convincing evidence of real Inter- Pub(Oct 1953 planetary "Saucers" or Space Craft. (Oct 1953) (reviewed in Oct American "LOOK" Magazine.)

( ) OTHER BRITISH CIVILIAN INVEST- ( )

= IGATING AGENCIES-----------

"FLYING SAUCER CLUB";42 ROTHBURY RD, HOVE 3,SUSSEX, ENGLAND. (Magazine) (Membership) Secretary Mr Richard Hughes. (Recommended)

AUSTRALIAN FLYING SAUCER BUREAU 3 FERGUSON AVENUE, FAIRFIELD.N.S.W. (Membership) President Mr E.R.Jarrold. (Recommended) (Fine Magazine.)

WITHOUT RESERVATION, YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED AT THE MOST CONVINCING,RELIABLE, INDISPUTABLE & AUTHORITIVE EVIDENCE THAT HAS BEEN RECORDED, TO PROVE THE CASE FOR -- REAL-- VISITATIONS -- FROM OUTER SPACE -- OR-- INTERPLANETARY SUPER-INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED CRAFT.

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