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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
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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…
## Calculated Data for Venus.
Mouth of Mokau River: Lat. 38°42'8
Long. 174°39'8
Venus: Declination 20°07' 8
L.N.A. 101° 37' .5 W at 0800 G.M.T.
105° 22' .3 W at 0815 G.M.T.
Time Zone: 12 hours E of Greenwich
N.Z. Time p.m. Altitude of Venue True Bearing
08 00 3°51'.8 247°11'.7
08 15 111.2 24458.6
The altitude is true, uncorrected for refraction or dip.
## REMAK8:
1. From the above data, Venus would set for an observer at sea level, at 8.25 p.m. assuming a refraction of $ 3 4^{\prime} $ . Abnormalities of refraction together with the height of eye could make this a few minutes later, agreeing very well in general with the observation.
2. The general direction given by the observer agrees so closely with the calculated bearing as to leave little doubt.
3. The diurnal motion would give the exact effects noted by the observer, viz., dropping to the horizon and moving to the south.
4. The colour and colour changes are in accordance with what is to be expected with a setting object. As an example there is the redness of the Sun when on the horizon. This is due to the absorption of shorter wavelengths of light by the horizon.atmosphere
5. The ciroling movement noted at the beginning of the second paragraph could be due to a not uncommon phenomenon of refraction effects causing stars to appear to move irregularly in the sky, together with the fact that the observer could not be fully assured of a steady line of sight without instruments.
## CONCLUSION:
All the evidence points very definitely to an observation of the setting of the planet Venus. About this file
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