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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.
“Open Minds”13 pages
# Civilian Saucer Investigation (NEW ZEALAND) President H. H. FULTON Secretary P.O. BOX 1914, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND. 18th August, 1953. The Director of Intelligence, Air Department, WELLINGTON. Dear Sir, As you are fully aware of the above Organisation, and as I have had the pleasure of meeting you, no introduction is necessary. After much serious thought, and with a full realisation of the magnitude of our subject; I have found it imperative that C.S.I. explore the possibility of Government assistance; our approach is made via your Department. My Committee's financial resources being of modest means, and as we are a non-profit Organisation, there is small chance of adequately equiping ourselves with the precision instruments, machinery, etc., most necessary for a research of this nature. Although there has been a marked official silence on the "Flying Saucer Saga" in the British Dominions, we feel that World Authorities must by now fully realise that there is a particularly strong case for "There's a Stranger in Our Skies from Outside Cellestrial Bounds". However, the World Authorities in all probability, have not the absolute proof as would be expressed in a captive or landed craft with or without superior beings at the controls. This Committee, in close co-operation with seven Overseas Groups, has filed much convincing evidence. In New Zealand alone (refer Pages 20 and 21 enclosed August Review) there has been many strang happenings in our local skies. As the frequency of sightings in the last seven years has increased considerably all over the World (greater impetus in particular being noticed in each renewed appearance). Having all this in mind, and remembering those cases where very near approach to the objects have been recorded, surely it would be foolish to ignore its overall significance; perhaps the time is not too far distant when the peoples of this Planet may be rather too suddenly or forcibly enlightened. (Not necessarily by any form of hostility).
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