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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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Invercargill 16.11.52 1045 am One Nil Saucer Saucer South Nil Greyish, crossed path of weather balloon. Tavistale NHWRK 19.11.52 8.20 pm One Three minutes Cigar South Nil Outlines with silvery blue lights Wellington 19.11.52 8.10 pm One Thirty secs Cigar South Nil Straight projectory high speed low horizon. Richmond NEKSON 20.11.52 10 pm One Minute Saucer Nil Nil Red light changing to green Blenheim 21.11.52 3 am Two One min Cigar Nil Whistle Lit up local area Blenheim 23.11.52 8.50 pm Five Up to 20 min Starlike Nil Nil Fluctating light density. Milford (Auck) 5.12.52 8.40 pm One 30 secs Saucer South Hissing Two, a blue above green. Palmerton North 6.12.52 9.45 pm Three 30 secs Two discs South Hissing Blue lighted object a green one. Masterton 6.12.52 9.55 pm One 30 secs Two discs South Hissing As above Nelson 6.12.52 2.55 am Three 15 min Saucer West Nil Appeared to have yellowish tinge light five times density of planet Gisborneill 6.12.52 9:150pm One None Disc South Nil Flying south at high speed (Blue) Wellington-Lyttleton ferry 6.12.52 Nil Two Nil Disc Nil Nil Small green light underneath a blue looking round object. Christchurch 6.12.52 1015 pm One 30 secs Disc South Hissing Blue in colour Ryeburn 6.12.52 11 pm One 30 secs Disc South Hissing Blue in colour Palmerton South 6.12.52 1108 pm One 4 secs Disc South Hissing Travelling fast Waipahi, Gore 6.12.52 1116 pm Four 30 secs Disc South Hissing Blue in colour Oamuru 6.12.52 None Four Nil Disc South Hissing Observers correlated reports from Christchurch, Waipahi Invergargill 6.12.52 1120 pm Five reports 15 secs Disc South Hissing Blueish colour Nelson 6.12.52 1015 pm Three reports 15 minutes Cigar Nil Nil One report 4 or 5 red lights revolving from left to right yellowish tinge.
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