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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. 11 …I have never seen a planet move like that. My co-pilot (First Officer S G…
  • p. 22 …I can only add if anyone believes my something they have never seen then here's…
  • p. 50 …they have landed, someplace, but I have never been able to track it down, but as…
  • p. 51 …the space people? A. It was not. Never deliberate on their part, but our aggression and…
  • p. 52 …Well I was taken pretty close to one other planet like that of Venus but never…
  • p. 53 …to class-room, for graduation which is never attained because eternity is eternity. Do they have…
  • p. 62 …lot on this great took it has never been strong yet I gave my standing son…
  • p. 72 …I never read who-dunnits, and I shun thrillers like poison; I suppose I have to…
  • p. 91 …such things for personal files but have never had copies made. I can see the value…
  • p. 97 …g) No peculiarities except that I have never observed its like before. (h) Solid in appearance…
  • p. 126 …moment. "In all my flying I've never seen anything 'like it," he said today. Air…
  • p. 137 …Someplace, but I have never been able to track it down, but as far as I…
  • p. 138 …the space people? A. It was not. Never deliberate on their part, but our aggression and…
  • p. 139 …Well I was taken pretty close to one other planet like that of Venus but never…
  • p. 140 …to class-room, for graduation which is never attained because eternity is eternity. Q. Do they…
  • p. 145 …we are making them," stated Mr. Quarles. Never in the history of our subject have I…
  • p. 151 …I have never said that the Big Four gathered to discuss the question of the UFO…
  • p. 152 …The real issues at Geneva are not yet known, and may never be, but we are…
  • p. 157 …a subjective reason why more stories have never been related, especially so, where PROMINENT PEOPLE are…
  • p. 158 …Wallace's mother, whom we later interviewed, claimed that her son had never been so frightened…
  • p. 167 …the phenomenon of Horseheads, N.Y., may never be known. ## ******* ## THE SWEDISH GHOST ROCKETS by S…
  • p. 172 …ALTHOUGH THE STORY WAS WIDELY REPORTED, IT WAS NEVER PUBLISHED IN FULL OUTSIDE SCANDINAVIA. NOW Flying…
  • p. 174 …I was never more than three or four minutes walk from the girls, and I reckon…
  • p. 176 …to time in the area, but they never heard of them flying at night. "What I…
  • p. 183 …He could not say whether or not it might be a meteor as he had never…
  • p. 201 …Besides, you never know what they could do to you . . . There is no material we know…
  • p. 213 …Church-because of the probability that they never contracted "original sin." ## Flying Discs Sir,—Periodically, Mr…
  • p. 216 …phenomena, there are many individuals who have never reported "sightings" of their own or knowledge. Hope…
  • p. 222 …France, never to be outdone, when it comes to autumn tourist attractions, has also had its…
  • p. 223 …It is necessary for me to state here that I would never falsely colour or manufacture…
  • p. 224 …They said this because they had never seen a modern deep-water diving suit. What they…
  • p. 231 …first reports were immediately followed by a never-ending chain of fantastic stories mostly created by…
  • p. 242 …I do not know what it was, I have never seen such an object before. President…
  • p. 248 …We have never heard of & find it difficult to imagine any meteors or aurorae presenting such…
  • p. 249 …He says that he and his companions never thought of flying saucers, being sure that it…
  • p. 254 …Civil Aviation Dept for some years, but never with the openness and seriousness of these last…
  • p. 256 # ore Observers Confirm # "NORTHERN ADVOCATE" # Seeing Strange Object 凯6 NOV 195本 "I HAVE never seen anything…
  • p. 257 …the man and his family. "I have never seen anything like it in my life," he…
  • p. 263 …or Martians, they reiterate that astronomers have never made any observations which could indicate a high…
  • p. 271 …With this weight of evidence you could well ask why saucers have never been, officially accepted…
  • p. 272 …chances are greater—a planet we have never even heard of. But wherever they come from…
  • p. 273 …I have never seen a saucer—but at least I have seen Mars! Vow the first…
  • p. 280 Acura shall call the existing currency All Min the Prairie neverer less len Qian FILE. for…
  • p. 286 …The world may never know, although he definitely has had a hand in the disk project…
  • p. 302 …observing of evidences, while those who have never seen a flying saucer make a show by…
  • p. 306 …In 18 years of flying I have never seen anything like it. If it had been…
  • p. 307 …and not forgetting those very important ones never to be forgotten sightings. We sincerely hope you…
  • p. 308 …likes light reading as well, but can never find the time now, so great is the…
  • p. 320 …Another official said that the Air Force had never accepted this theory. By classifying sightings as…
  • p. 321 …I never saw it happen before. If the acceleration explanation is true, then the speeds involved…
  • p. 324 …The Air Force has never denied that such a possibility exists. Some of the personnel believe…
  • p. 332 …more closely, I am sure they would never be so keen to rashly debunk it. Right…
  • p. 356 …These have never been confused with flying saucers as some sources of information contend. Recent events…
  • p. 367 …happenings in the sky that science had never been able satisfactorily to explain. Unger, beginning in…
  • p. 373 …Forefathers, the great majority of their ranks never dreamed of or envisaged that which is ordinary…
  • p. 401 …nuclli open to doubt because there have never been reports of them from sailors, astronomers and…
  • p. 416 …to bright red. "I wish I had never seen it," he said. "It's too fantastic…
  • p. 436 …In spite of all the flying saucer reports all over the world, science has never been…
that he had seen lights in the sky above Kew which appeared to be moving across the sky towards the open sea. They changed colour from red to green while the object was in motion and finally disappeared about 10.35 p.m. near the Otago Heads. Immediately afterwards a call was received from a member of the transmitter staff of 4YA who said that he, with several others, had seen lights in the sky above the city. They were seen a few minutes after 10.30 p.m. and appeared to be moving up and down like a kite. The lights moved slowly towards him, but he had not seen them change colour. They faded away at 10.47 p.m. A reporter then went to the roof of the Daily Times but saw nothing. The sky was completely overcast. On returning inside he received another phone call from the 4YA staff with the information that the object had again been sighted in the area of Tasiri Mouth (30 miles to the south of Dunedin).

12. On the 10th November several readers rang the Daily Telegraph to say that they had seen strange objects in the sky in the direction of St. Olair about 10.30 p.m. on Sunday night. A resident of Opoho said that the object changed colour from the brightest green to the most distinct red. It was "going up and then coming down" for from six to eight minutes. It appeared to be the size of a soccer ball and twice as bright as any star. A Normanby resident saw two objects in the sky at 9.15 p.m. which remained in view until about 9.30. At 10.15 be noticed a single object which remained in sight for about fifteen minutes. He remained on watch and at 12.30 a.m. saw something that looked like a mushroom". Hues ranging from red to orange were seen, and there were changes of colours at frequent intervals. All the objects were moving slowly.

13. A passenger on the Express from Christchurch saw an unusual light in the sky near Camara (about 70 miles to the north of Dunedin) about 4 a.m. He watched it for about a quarter of an hour, during which time the light changed from blood red to yellow.

14. of Hastings saw an object at 10.10 p.m. on Wednesday travelling south-west. Orange in odour and moon-shaped it was just below the cloud ceiling and made no sound. He watched it for about three minutes. His father also saw it.

15. A Cromwell resident reported an object which matches exactly the description given by your correspondents flew from north to south at colossal speed. It looked about twice the size of a large star, perfectly round, with no trail of any sort and pursuing a flat course. It was as bright when I first saw it as it was when it finally disappeared over the Dunstan Range. It took about one to one and half seconds to move across the five mile range of my vision.

## 16. At Morton Mains, 17 miles from Invereargill,

at midnight on November 17 heard a loud hissing sound. Looking up he saw a large brilliant object moving westward. Behind it trailed a stream of small star-like lights. Further back still was a circle of lights which quickly faded out. The main light, however, seemed to hover over the Hokonui Hills. For some time it swung in a wide arc, and after half an hour, diminished in size and was lost in the clouds.

17. By this time the public were becoming interested. Civilian Sensor Investigation (New Zealand) with Mr. H. H. Fulton as President was established in Auckland to prove or disprove the existence of flying saucers. It is affiliated to an international body with the same object. In its column "Fifty Years Age" the Dunedin Star republished the following paragraph which first appeared on 21st November, 1902.

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