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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.
“Christchurch”32 pages
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# NOT A FIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION BUT A FRAGMENT OF THINGS TO COME Civilian Saucer Investigation, New Zealand, set up late last year with a determination to seriously study and probe the flying saucer mystery, have, by virtue of their existence, accumulated an astonishing amount of data from many parts of the world. It is still coming in, and practically every week brings to light new evidence, and the existence of still another kindred organisation, either well-established or in the act of forming. This committee is unanimous that their project is well justified and are planning ways and means of establishing the true cause or/ and purpose of the apparent numerous appearances of suspect objects. A significant feature in the field of flying saucer research is the number of kindred organisations that are now investigating this phenomena on private and civilian level. C.S.I. is now actively corresponding with seven other organisations, (there are four others to our knowledge) all formed within the last twelve months, within countries of English-speaking peoples. It is not a well-known fact that military intelligence has and is bound to pay much attention and direct considerable effort to solve the flying saucer mystery, if only for security reasons alone. All three Services in the United States have their own flying saucer projects; Great Britain is interested too; the Air Ministry is giving serious study to the problem and a well established Government department to study the subject exists in France All this would not be if the answer was an easy one. To the many investigating groups, flying saucers are farflung from joke, hoax, myth, mirage,or fancy, for short of an actual saucer craft for public inspection, every other form of normally convincing evidence (aided by modern scientific apparatus) has been recorded. Every class of individual, in widely varied occupations, has either collectively or individually witnessed the flight of strange airborne craft Astronomers, weathermen, airmen, seamen, (naval and maritime) birdwatchers, police, servicemen, farmer and housewife have seen them. Many of these individuals in making their reports have stated previous positive disbelief and strong scopticism of flying saucers. Their views on the subject now have absolutely reversed.
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