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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
no evidence of banking, as would be the case with a flat object! To substantiate this report, some personal particulars: I am Engineer-in-Charge of Broadcasting Station 5KA, Adelaide. During the War I served 5½ years in the R.A.A.F. in which service I was trained in Aircraft Recognition, as well as serving as an aircraft W/T Operator. I am currently a Reserve Officer in the Technical (Signals) Branch of the same service. Yours faithfully, (Signed)... " EXTRACTS FROM THE AUSTRALIAN FLYING SAUCER MAGAZINE (May 1953) OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF AUSTRALIAN FLYING SAUCER BUREAU. EDITORIAL: Those mysterious flying objects, cigars, spheres, balls of light ever and anon reported hurtling at fantastic speeds through the skies of some country or other - What causes them: What are they composed of? And whence do they come? The answers to these and scores of similar perplexing questions are being feverishly sought by organisations simultaneously all over the world, and it is significant to note that each country's contribution to universal investigation appears to be in a direct relation to its individual state of scientific achievement. What fabulous facts will eventually emerge from the several lines of enquiry being hurriedly pursued can only be conjectured at present, but the Australian Flying Saucer Bureau is assisting general research to the utmost of its ability by collecting and analysing reports, particularly from the Australian area, and seeking, by testing various theories and other means, to intergrate all the available data into a coherent, global picture. Are they simply products of "mass hallucinations" on an immense scale? Are they results of some new and extraordinary type of optical illusion. Or are they fabricated, and perhaps operated as well, by martians, Venusians, or some other kind of intelligent beings, possibly similar to ourselves? If the latter theory proves correct, and the objects are space vehicles capable of interplanetary travel, of what amazing materials are they constructed, what incredible force drives them? And, of no less importance, if they are driven from within, what kind of occupants do they possess?
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