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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.
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Transcript of Area Control Centre Log: 2006 National 108 inquired if any traffic west of New Plymouth. Aircraft was advised no traffic in that area. Aircraft then stated that there is a moving bright light in that area and it does not look like a star or planet. Action: Checked with Ohakea Tower who advised no aircraft from there known to be in that area. 2008 National 135 advises that the light is approximately 10 miles to port of him and is changing colour from red to gold to yellow. Action: Ohakea Tower requested to keep lookout for this object. Comment: The reason why the controller requested Ohakea to keep a lookout for the object was that National 135 was carrying out a diversion from Wanganui NDB via Ohakea NDB to Paraparaumu at the time. However both of the crew of National 135 have since denied making any such report A check of the recording taken over this period would seem to indicate that the report attributed to National 135 was in fact a second report made by National 108 using the callsign '135'. There is a marked similarity in the voice giving both reports. At the time National 108 is in a position almost abreast of Albatross Point
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