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NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files
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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.
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- p. 14 …a "Aying saucer" over the Hawock North Hills is claimed to have been obtained by Mr…
- p. 15 …to be coming slowly down towards the hills. It bore the appearance, she said, of a…
- p. 20 …They first noticed the light high above the hills behind Bay View. It hovered there for…
- p. 21 …To-night it will set shortly before 9 o'clock, though, with hills to the west…
- p. 28 …very powerful one, flashing on the Patterang hill, about a mile distant. First it kept pointing…
- p. 61 …step they shall be Sahin Discover the Hills will. Often and thing will be set free…
- p. 72 …On reaching the brow of a hill he saw a brightly lit object coming toward him…
- p. 94 …the following from the top of Kinbarni Hill : at 3: 32 p.m. shortly after a…
- p. 125 …large star low down over the Wellington hills drew the attention of a prominent Auckland business…
- p. 130 …climbed a hill in Lancashire to photograph birds. They set their camera to infinity and directed…
- p. 132 …Both then disappeared slowly behind the outline of the hill.
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- p. 175 …CLOSE-UP OF THE GREAT GALLOWAY HILLS MYSTERY - WHAT CAN THIS THING BE?
This is reported…
- p. 188 …On February 15 this year two schoolboys were reported to have climbed a hill in Lancashire…
- p. 189 …Stewart, a farmer, of Saddle Hill, one of the men who saw the fire ball (or…
- p. 212 # SCIENTIST EXPLAINS STRANGE SKY SIGHTS
On top of Kelburn hill two silver observatory domes gleam in…
- p. 225 The objects that landed were not Meteorites, because they travelled horizontally, manoeuvred around hills, stopped in…
- p. 233 …This club formed by students of a Primary School, One Tree Hill. Master Kelvin Barton advised…
- p. 249 …see a bright star, slightly above the hill behind Whakarewarewa, suddenly, "take off" on a circuit…
- p. 251 …to see the object disappear over a hill in a manner that suggested to him, would…
- p. 256 …He was on top of the hill in Commons Street, Oneraht, when the sun had just…
- p. 257 …and at the time was on a hill overlooking the countryside. He was looking toward where…
- p. 258 …over the penisula and disappeared over Saddle Hill.
A boy said it looked like a football…
- p. 267 …It was a big fireball and, though it seemed to be over the Karori hills, must…
- p. 278 …Three policemen plodded solemnly into the hills accompanied by the sisters and surveyed the scene of…
- p. 312 …as far a part as Hamilton East, Hill-croft Whitiora, and Maeroa and which occured right…
- p. 320 …This corresponds with the rotation of a parabolic antenna located on a nearby hill. As the…
- p. 327 …vapor, flashing across the sky over Box Hill at 2.30p.m. I saw what appeared…
- p. 335 …Scoffers were con- founded, however, by the unusual story of a settler at Kauroo Hill. It…
- p. 336 …time the airship had disappeared over a hill. The object was also seen at Mahono. The…
- p. 363 …a south-East direction near the Adelaide hills. In the meantime I called my wife who…
- p. 368 …Southwest had seen flash across the bare hills in straight, silent, horizontal flight, Unger recalled a…
- p. 379 …191953
A group of people at surrey hills yesterday reported seeing a four minute display by…
- p. 392 …was well above the line of the hills. When he resumed his journey he saw the…
- p. 393 …The main light, however, seemed to hover over the Hokonui Hills. For some time it swung…
- p. 396 …blue object was seen over the Port Hills at Christchurch at 11.45 p.m. A…
- p. 422 …Brown, of Hill Grove, Naenae, their daughter Alice and her friend Ron Middleton, all saw a…
- p. 430 …was even above the line of the hills. When he resumed his journey he saw the…
- p. 431 …motion well above the outline of the hills. It was going in an easterly direction. I…
- p. 436 …bearing says, a church spire or a hill, we can draw a line on a map…
- p. 439 …disappeared in a northerly direction over the hills of Khandallah. The object was viewed from the…
- p. 444 …Sugarloaf hill near Napier DATE: 30/10/52 TIME: approx 9.30pm.
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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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