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NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files

NZDF / RNZAF via Internet Archive · 2010-12 · 445 pages · text by OCR

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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“Scientific American”7 pages

  • p. 149 …We have established via accepted scientific standards that "Saucers" do most positively exist, and the only…
  • p. 176 …I have also come to the conclusion that the establishment of the original American Satellite Project…
  • p. 180 …after five years' research by their leading scientific brains, aided by all modern mechanical instruments, have…
  • p. 202 …not meet scientific standards. ## Noiseless flight Speculations that the saucers are secret American or Russian missiles…
  • p. 224 …Reporter on scene says investigation fully warranted." The American newspaper reporting the incident thought it necessary…
  • p. 318 …11, The World's first scientific flying saucer sighting station is being constructed by Canadian electronic…
  • p. 405 …There has not been a single record in any scientific magazine of repute. In a world…
PASSENGER LIST WELLINGTON/AUCKLAND - FLIGHT 108 - 31/10/1955

DUNEDIN/AUCKLAND	Name	Contact
90/12168
0182/50652
90/12165
17/16399

CHRISTCHURCH/AUCKLAND:

67/39485 CA

90/34627 CA

WELLINGTON/AUCKLAND:

19/80924 WA	Cohen	Air/Cmdr	C/o Air Force
19/991447
19/991447
15/888250
7/934800
59/908733
59/908734
67/959376
74/986136
8/942388
90/954990
19/80753 WA
19/80863 WA
19/80862 WA
19/80899 WA
19/80935 WA
19/80938"
8/942458"	Tuckett	Mr

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