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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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4 (a) Circular - about $ \frac{3}{4} $ the size of the sun when viewed through dark glasses.
(b) Red in colour - deep red near the periphery and light red at the centre.
(c) Appeared to be moving parallel to the aircraft until it disappeared from sight.
My description of the light is very brief due to the fact that I only observed it for brief periods of time. I emphasise that the aircraft was on a steady course and the light appeared to move from the south west sedor to the north.
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