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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.
“The Advance”22 pages
There are many thousands of eye-witness accounts in the last five years, many individuals having submitted themselves to sworn testimony. Sightings are not restricted to any particular atmospheric or weather conditions. Photographs taken by amatuers and professions alike, are by no means rare. Thorough checking by experts has failed to invalidate them. hysterious flights of objects have been tracked by radar on numerous occasions in America, Great Britain, Japan, Canada, Korea and on the Continent. The operators of these radar sets are fully conversant with the fundamental facts of what forms of natural phenomena will cause a return on their screens. These have never been confused with flying saucers as some sources of information contend. Recent events have proved that our aircraft - over the troubled areas of Korea - and many other places, are no match for the speed, elusiveness and adaptness of objects described as "flying clusters" soon by day and night, and again modern radar positively identified as solid objects. It would indeed be a narrow view, and a dangerous one, if every individual had to personally experience something before he believed in it or, accredited it's possibilities; if this were the case, the story of humans endeavour would indeed be a sad one and progress would have never been made. Because of over-present prejudice of happenings unexplainable by present day standards, scientists and layman alike (not having seen) have shown a remarkable lack of reasonable trust and confidence in the testimony of their fellow equals. Unfortunate individuals, once average respected citizens, were subsequently denied this distinction because they choose to relate similar experience or by outspokenness supported the thesis that this planet is subject to visits by beings from other world or worlds. Indeed it is not wishful thinking or for lack of sensational events that gives cause to such claims. The weight of evidence is over-whelming in its favour; you too will reach this conclusion if your interest is aroused and you care to make yourself conversant with the wealth of information recorded. Today due to the following reasons, the great majority of the educated people of the world are, openly discussing, giving serious thought and waiting expectantly for subsequent developments. These reasons are:- (1) You have personally witnessed the flight of an object,
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