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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. 41 …Mouth of Mokau River: Lat. 38°42'8 Long. 174°39'8 Venus: Declination…
  • p. 46 …My daughter and I went in my car to the mouth of the Mokau River at…
  • p. 85 …It changed colour from white-yellow-orange(gold) to red. It did not appear as a…
  • p. 147 …It changed colour from white-yellow-orange (gold) to red. It did not appear to have…
  • p. 159 …On Sept, 20th, Connelly reported a bright red and green object flying low and soundlessly over…
  • p. 244 …Wallace and her daughter, reported seeing a strange oval-shaped disc, orange red in colour, performing…
  • p. 418 …By introducing molecules raised air into a partial vacuum jar three feet high, orange red were…
20/10/52 If at

Dear Sir,

I acknowledge your letter of 3rd October and thank you for the interest which prompted you to write it. No other cases in any way similar to yours and no cases of visible "flying saucers" have been reported to me, but it is useful to have a factual report such as yours for reference should others be received later.

Yours faithfully,

Lt Macdonald

MERCUREY BAY.

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