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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. 145 …We know, too, that the numerous UFO sightings expected to follow the close approach of Earth…
  • p. 165 …strqnge substance jettisoned from UFOs. The most spectacular case was reported from Florence, Italy, on the…
  • p. 171 …As far as the observations are concerned, an extensive report was entered in the meteorological log…
  • p. 177 …DesVergers at Palm Beach International Airport on Aug. 22, 1952, that he (DesVergers ) was "the only…
  • p. 185 …inquisitive and mystifying UFO must be expected. Perhaps Kiwiland will spring into international limelight with stories…
The observer made such good observations without the aid of instruments, that the full agreement of calculations and known phenomena with his reports leave no uncertainty.

I.L. Thomeen

DIRECTOR

CARTER OBSERVATORY

11th November 1955

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