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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.

  • p. 12 …He jettisoned his long-range tanks and did diving turns out to sea. He flattened out…
  • p. 19 …He then did diving turns out to sea and flattened out at 4000ft, heading north-north…
  • p. 41 …From the above data, Venus would set for an observer at sea level, at 8.25…
  • p. 46 …when it disappeared on the horizon at sea level. As the red colour was brighter than…
  • p. 77 …sea level with no refraction, Z.D. = $ 9 0^{\circ} 0 0^{\prime} $ (b) At sea…
  • p. 94 …Screen for SEA '
  • p. 100 …table for the following factors:- (a) At sea level with no refraction, $ \mathbf{Z}.\mathbf{D…
  • p. 104 …THEY SAW LIGHT WELL OUT TO SEA. AT FIRST IT APPEARED LIKE A STAR AND THEN…
  • p. 107 …table for the following factors:- (a) At sea level with no refraction, $ \mathrm{Z.D.}=9…
  • p. 130 …world's land masses and the seven seas have been THERE is scope for intriguing contemplation…
  • p. 150 …Azimuth 246 $ ^{\circ} $ T, Altitude -0.39 at sea level. Mr. I.L. Thomsen,Director of…
  • p. 170 …An excellent little printed UFO magazine.) # A VETERAN SEA CAPTAIN REPORTS ## "I SIGHTED A FLYING SAUCER…
  • p. 171 …At that time the ship was 50 sea-miles east of Ambrose lightship, the spot where…
  • p. 182 …Mountbatten is one of the subscribers. (First Sea Lord). No news for a long time from…
  • p. 189 # Strange Object Seen Hovering Over Sea By Two Dunedin Men Two Dunedin men may have been…
  • p. 192 …a subsequent report from a ship at sea in the same vicinity. This described what was…
  • p. 202 …They buzzed Bloomington, Indiana on September 7, 1877, ships in the Yellow Sea in 1893, and…
  • p. 203 …to exist at the bottom of the sea. The Uranides, I think, have been examining the…
  • p. 212 …The pilot said after landing that the two objects were much faster than his Sea Fury…
  • p. 215 …And had been flicked up by a sea gull and then drifted. It made no sound…
  • p. 217 …Our observer does not believe these government men tossed the object in the sea, and nor…
  • p. 218 …Our observer does not believe these government men tossed object in the sea, and nor do…
  • p. 242 …Due west of Whenuapai takes you out to sea off the Muruwai coast-line. ## May 24th…
  • p. 243 …smoothly in an easterly direction out to sea. This report was made to Mr Metcalf, President…
  • p. 244 …hovering, shortly, it darted off at high speed out to sea and then as suddenly returned…
  • p. 251 …watched a strange moving light out to sea off the coast of Muruwai Beach. The light…
  • p. 262 …The shaded area in the diagram shows pieces of the Comet airliner recovered from the sea…
  • p. 265 …northwards, high in the sky above the sea. "The movement of the object seemed similar to…
  • p. 266 …The object, which he took to be a meteor, lit up the sea for a considerable…
  • p. 267 …hills, must have been out over the sea. He added that the Wadestown man who had…
  • p. 295 …Supply at sea it was reported at 6.10 p.m. on February 28, 1904, that…
  • p. 307 …sound of its striking the earth or sea was heard, -- a loud and lengthened noise, to…
  • p. 314 …his 1931 solo crossing of the Tasman Sea from Auckland to Sydney via Norfolk and Lord…
  • p. 315 …under the title " Alone over the Tasman Sea "starting on page 299 line 11. Please let…
  • p. 331 …It could not have been a plane, as the wind was blowing in off the sea…
  • p. 336 …engine-driver noticed a light out to sea. It was moving up and down and advancing…
  • p. 366 …about 20 feet above the sea, parallel with the Llandovery Castle, and travelling in the same…
  • p. 368 …Schofield, aboard a navy supply vessel at sea. Shortly after six o'clock on the morning…
  • p. 391 …It was well out at sea opposite Whenuapai immediately to the north of Auckland, and soon…
  • p. 392 …From its course it appeared to have some over the city from the sea off St…
  • p. 393 …moving across the sky towards the open sea. They changed colour from red to green while…
  • p. 399 …The Taeiri district would be an obvious place for a sea-borne landing. 43. In general…
  • p. 407 # RUSSIAN SUBMARINES IN NORTH SEA MANOEUVRES New Zealand Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, January 5 (Rec. 7…
  • p. 412 …Hovered Nil Descended and moved out to sea New Brighton 29.10.52 9 pm One…
  • p. 430 …The lights, he said, appeared to be moving across the sky towards the open sea. They…
  • p. 433 …The object was well out at sea, opposite Whenuapai, and soon disappeared silently. A man and…
  • p. 436 …The object was well out at sea, opposite Whenuapai, and soon, disappeared silently. A man and…
what we are up to. Judging by the similarity of the reports simse they may have been watching us a good long time. By Robert L. Umger.

# AN OUTSTANDING SIGHTING

THE MT. KILIMANJARO ENIGMA.

February 19, 1951, dawned bright and clear at Nairobi, Kenya, Colony, East Africa.

At Nairobi West Airport, the regular Monday morning Lodestar was readied as usual for its morning flight to Mombasa, and soon passengers filed aboard, little dreaming, any of them, of what was to meet their astounded eyes barely 20 minutes later.

at 7 a.m. exactly with 7 passengers and a crew of 2 aboard, the Lodestar took off.

all went well until 7.20 a.m. when suddenly the radio officer drew the attention of his superior, Capt. J. Bicknell, to a bright object like a white star, apparently hanging motionless easily 10,000 ft. above it. Kilimanjaro.

Capt. Bicknell's first reaction, he said later, was to say nothing. The two watched the strange object for 3 minutes, then, as it showed no signs of vanishing, 'informed the passengers. One began promptly studying the oddity, amazedly through a powerful pair of field-glasses, whilst the radio officer flashed an excited call to Eastleigh nearby, giving an account and description of the thing.

Eastleigh's suggestion flashed in return was that the object might be a drifting Meteorological balloon, but checking on that possibility, after inspecting the enigmatic object for several minutes, Capt. Bicknell found that the more he examined it, the less it could possibly be mistaken for a balloon. It was a dull silver colour and marked at regular intervals along the fuselage with vertical dark bands. The entire outline, he found, was unmistakably distinct; nor, though it appeared to be incredibly distant, was its sharp outline obscured in the least detail by intervening haze,

Capt. Bicknell estimated the thing was over 200 ft. long, bullet-shaped, and apparently constructed of metal which snone brightly On first sighting it, the Lodestar was heading roughly towards it, and watching it closely as they approached, Capt. Bicknell perceived another detail. The thing possessed an square-cut vertical fin at one end. There were no signs of movement, it was absolutely stationary.

So it remained for 17 minutes. Passengers of the Lodestar were now taking turns with the field-glasses, and two of them had commenced

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