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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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# DID MARS CONTACT EARTH EXTRACT FROM SPACE REVIEW - APRIL,1953, - OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FLYING SAUCER BUREAU, U.S.A. On the night of August 22, 1924, our neighbouring planet Mars passed within 35 million miles of this world. Observatories in the Northern Hemisphere were carefully scanning the big red orb in the still, starry night, hoping to catch some evidence of life, or human occupation on its surface. Every high powered radio station was silenced in the hope that some message would be flashed across space. Suddenly, after a long period of tension, first one radio station and then another picked up a distinct signal on a wave band of 6,000 meters which was recorded on film by an apparatus similar in nature to the sound recording devices used in the motion picture industry today. After these signals ceased the film was developed, and shortly after examined by a group of scientists who were astounded by what they saw. On the left hand side of the film was a series of clear and unmistakable dots and dashes (similar in nature to our Morse Code) and on the right hand side spaced at equal intervals a mass of jumbled lines resembling very strongly the feature of a man's face. This film was then rushed to decoding stations who after studying it for weeks stated that they could not decode it. This film has been kept as a permanent record as proof of the historical activities on that night. Many famous scientists also claim to have contacted Mars by radio, among them, Senor Marconi himself and Mansfield Robinson, who in 1928 used the Rugby Transmitter for this purpose and, it is recorded, received a reply. Still that is another story. Can we now probe the theory that it is at least feasible to consider that the Martians have achieved the art of interplanetary travel? Anyway, it's something to think about! BY JOHN ARMITAGE, GREAT BRITAIN. WHAT WILL 1956 REVEAL Great interest has been aroused and speculation is rife with the resultant data that it is hoped will bereamed from Mars next nearest possible"Opposition"late August 1956. The Red Planet stands small chance or slipping past without revealing some or perhaps many most amazing secrets. Experts at the controls of the (until recently) worlds largest Telescope will train the giant
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