Documents / Document
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.
“Ray Palmer”4 pages
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
# AN ANALYSIS Graph showing recent high peak of sightings and frequency of flying saucers over NZ. Jan.1952--Aug.1953. Objects seen in daylight During darkness Saucer,Disc,Round,shaped GRAPH 23 Rocket;Cigar.Tube, " Most objects appear to be surrounded by an unearthly luminousity" when seen at night. Arrowhead,Wedge,shaped Brilliant Lights, Miscellaneous etc. All characteristics of flight, variety of shapes, colour range etc., align perfectly with the habits of saucers elsewhere. FLYING SAUCERS HAVE BRILLIANT COLOURS Hues ranging from Orange,Orange-Red,to brilliant Red, Brilliant White,Opalescent,luminescent,Incandescent light Hues ranging from Blue,Blue-Green,to bright Green Yellow to White Objects noted to change from Red to Green repeatedly showing Silvery,mirror-like,polished motal-like surface (daylight sightings.)
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 445 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.