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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.
“The Advance”22 pages
- p. 66 …The period was March or April 1943 during the advance of the 8th Army and I…
- p. 129 …Having made itself familiar with the many theories advanced to explain the "saucers," and having made…
- p. 130 …most advanced designs and comprehensions.
phenomena explanation can account for, or satisfactorily explain away the hundreds…
- p. 160 …That month the advanced training course was instruction in night flying. The T6's went up…
- p. 168 …No nation - Russia least of all - would imperil the secrets of an advanced new weapon by…
- p. 180 …The committee, having made itself familiar with the many theories advanced to explain the Saucers, having…
- p. 184 …to the 27th Feb., the above mentioned difficulties with duplicating printing machine, and the arrival of…
- p. 213 …The committee agreed that the first martian should be given the following meal: Oysters, lobsters, a…
- p. 225 …They were not advancing in a straight line, but with the rapid and short movement of…
- p. 238 …on the runway which took off rapidly as he advanced to wards it) the firemans etory…
- p. 263 …friendly, if unintelligible, advances to startled peasants, or nall them to the spot with a hypnotic…
- p. 274 …The future must hold even greater advancement than we can imagine at present."
Let us turn…
- p. 290 …Some of the explanations advanced from time to time are an insult to an observer's…
- p. 302 …In other words, they are a good deal nearer today the position I advanced in "Behind…
- p. 314 …Then I saw advancing great heavens. the dull grey-white shape of an airship. Impossible ??, However…
- p. 315 …right front I saw another of the same airships advancing. I fixed my gaze on it…
- p. 322 …Theories that he wasx"chasing" the planet Venis or the Moon were advanced but not accepted…
- p. 324 …One theory advanced from time to time is that the saucers are some revolutionary type of…
- p. 327 …It is the only theory advanced to date which has been found to conform acceptably with…
- p. 336 …One passenger advanced the theory that it might be a message from Mars. At about the…
- p. 345 …The publishers state that "this is one of the most startling books ever published." The claim…
- p. 417 …no beings more advanced than us in other worlds. In view of the fact that other…
# 15 November 1955.
## NEW PLYMOUTH.
## Dear
I attach a report from the Director of the Carter Observatory on the facts set out in your letter to me about your experience on November 5th.
You will notice that in dropping two degrees toward the horizon the planet moves two degrees to the South. If there was a substantial degree of refraction and you continued to see the planet after it had dipped below the horizon the apparent movement would be even more marked.
Your report is of considerable value in that it confirms that Venus presented a spectacular sight at the time and in the position of the object reported by Captain Rainbow.
It seems remarkable to say the least if the object he observed was not Venus as well, especially in the later stages of his observation when the objects would have been well separated. The conclusion seems inescapable that he allowed his aircraft to veer off course thus giving the effect of relative movement of the planet.
Thank you very much for your letter and your careful observations.
Yours sincerely,
（T. P. SHAND）
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