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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.
“Headquarters”37 pages
- p. 2 …copy from the Defence Library c/o Headquarters New Zealand Defence Force Aitken St Wellington. They…
- p. 5 …31/8/2010
For Headquarters New Zealand Defence Force
NB: Classified documents of other New Zealand…
- p. 12 …THE best part of a day's discussion at Air Headquarters yesterday did not find the…
- p. 21 …Currently many reports being received at our headquarters Expert reports to reach meek volume over Christmas…
- p. 76 …The Director of Intelligence, Royal New Zealand Air Force, Headquarters, Wellington.
From: The Director, Carter Observatory…
- p. 96 …of Intelligence, R.N.Z.A.F. Headquarters, Departmental Buildings, Stout Street, WELLINGTON
## REPORT ON STRANGE…
- p. 98 …of a day's discussion at Air Headquarters yesterday did not find the explanation of the…
- p. 99 …The Director of Intelligence, Royal New Zealand Air Force, Headquarters, Wellington.
From: The Director, Carter Observatory…
- p. 106 …The Director of Intelligence, Royal New Zealand Air Force, Headquarters, Wellington.
From: The Director, Carter Observatory…
- p. 129 A NEW ZEALAND organisation with headquarters at Onehunga for nearly three years has been engaged on…
- p. 144 …6th MAY, 1954, AT C.S.I. HEADQUARTERS, 1 NISSAN PLACE, ONEHUNGA, S.E.5, AUCKLAND…
- p. 150 …of other "Flying Lights" which reached CSI Headquarters during November. An appreciable number reported that the…
- p. 152 …down over a wide area around the headquarters of the U.S. delegation. He assures us…
- p. 173 …H.FULTON AT C.S.I'S HEADQUARTERS I, NISSAN PLACE, ONEHUNGA.S.E.5. AUCKLAND…
- p. 178 …CIVILIAN SAUCER INVESTIGATION(NZ)
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22nd, November 1955
Headquarters I Nissan Place, Onehunga S.E…
- p. 181 …FULTON
Secretary
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Headquarters
I Nissan Place Onehunga S.E.5.
P.O. BOX 1914,
AUCKLAND…
- p. 185 …BEHIND THE SCENES AT C.S.I. HEADQUARTERS: C.S.I. central Committee has big plans…
- p. 187 …ARGENT CALL!
Issued from C.S.I. Headquarters:- 1 Nissan Place, Onhunga, AUCKLAND. S.E.5…
- p. 198 …Air Headquarters, Wellington. (Attention D of I).
DATE : 13th April, 1955.
REF : WH:C21/5/AIR…
- p. 209 …copy from the Defence Library c/o Headquarters New Zealand Defence Force Aitken St Wellington. They…
- p. 216 …P.O. BOX 1914. AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND.
Headquarters. I Nissan Place Onehunga S.E.5. Auckland…
- p. 228 …The occurrences, to my knowledge, were confined to the headquarters of C.S.I. (N.Z…
- p. 232 …H.H.Fulton Cover by D.Metcalf.
HEADQUARTERS I NISSAN PLACE ONEHUNGA S.E.5.
June…
- p. 243 …informed headquarters that something very similar and strange badly scared two men at Titirangi the same…
- p. 254 …money-order to A.F.S.B. Headquarters 3 Ferguson Avenue Fairfield Australia and obtain copies…
- p. 255 …considerations; also his place of duty is 22 miles from his home and headquarters. However, enough…
- p. 275 …ARMY
In replying please quote
ARMY 270/1/438/G
ARMY HEADQUARTERS WELLINGTON C.1 NEW…
- p. 286 …Magadan is the headquarters of a region that he
- p. 293 …PLAN
An aerial top-dressing firm with headquarters in New Plymouth, Rural Aviation Limited, hopes to…
- p. 318 …H.H.Fulton at C.S.I. Headquarters I Nissan Place, Onehunga S.E.5. Luckland…
- p. 329 …and has appealed to C.S.I. headquarters for the particulars of all sightings on our…
- p. 346 …A senior Air Force officer said in Cape Town today that Air Force headquarters was investigating…
- p. 353 …Armed Forces Intelligence Division or Government Security Headquarters, have or plan a similar parallel investigation, is…
- p. 377 …The Marine Corps statement was issued at headquarters of the Second Marine Air Wing here. It…
- p. 380 …Bender, International Flying Saucer Bureau, International Headquarters, P.O. Box 241, Bridgeport 2, Connecticut, U.S…
- p. 410 …who is President of Civilian Saucer Investigation (N.Z.), a private group with headquarters in Auckland…
- p. 437 …Bender, International Headquarters, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
British Branch. Captain E.L. Plunkett, 71, Chedworth, Horfield, Bristol, 7…
39. A resident of Cromwell also wrote in saying that he had seen an object matching exactly the description given flying from north to south at a colossal speed. It looked about twice the size of a large star, perfectly round, with no trail of any kind and pursuing a flat course. It was in sight for one to one and half seconds, and finally disappeared over the Dunstan Range (to the east). It is very likely that he saw a meteor and not the blue disc.
40. The following is a summary of the reported movements of the two objects. It is worthy of note that almost all the sightings agree in detail and there are no sightings inconsistent with the reported movements of the objects. No radar was operating at the time of their visit and the New Zealand Air Force is not aware of any flights that would correspond to the one under consideration.
6.12.52 Colour Direction of Flight
8.35-8.40 p.m. Auckland Blue Green S. No sound.
9.15 p.m. Gisborne Blue S.
9.35 Fordell Green S. Hissing.
9.45-9.50 Peilding Blue SE.
10.10 p.m. Plimmerton Green From Hawke's Day then both south Hissing W.
Karori Blue Green
10/10.15/10.25 p.m. Nelson Yellow/White
10.30? Cheviot? Blue Green
Christchurch Blue S. Hissing
Camara Blue
11.8 Kyeburn S. Hissing
11.8 Palmerston Blue S. Hissing
11.16 Waipahi Blue S. Hissing
11.45 Christchurch Blue
7.12.52
12.45 a.m. Palmerston North
1 a.m. Naenac Bright (near Wellington) Circling
11. Some conclusions may be drawn regarding these two objects: the blue object seems to have travelled throughout at a speed of about 35-400 miles an hour. The green object appears to have varied a speed considerably.
They flew at a comparatively low height and were apparently illiar with the main air routes through New Zealand.
They flew over or near the main centres of population, ding the mountainous country.
They appear to have come from and returned to the north, to have a considerable endurance. There is no suggestion that landed in New Zealand.
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