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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.
“Nevers”58 pages
- p. 11 …I have never seen a planet move like that. My co-pilot (First Officer S G…
- p. 22 …I can only add if anyone believes my something they have never seen then here's…
- p. 50 …they have landed, someplace, but I have never been able to track it down, but as…
- p. 51 …the space people?
A. It was not. Never deliberate on their part, but our aggression and…
- p. 52 …Well I was taken pretty close to one other planet like that of Venus but never…
- p. 53 …to class-room, for graduation which is never attained because eternity is eternity.
Do they have…
- p. 62 …lot on this great took it has never been strong yet I gave my standing son…
- p. 72 …I never read who-dunnits, and I shun thrillers like poison; I suppose I have to…
- p. 91 …such things for personal files but have never had copies made. I can see the value…
- p. 97 …g) No peculiarities except that I have never observed its like before.
(h) Solid in appearance…
- p. 126 …moment. "In all my flying I've never seen anything 'like it," he said today.
Air…
- p. 137 …Someplace, but I have never been able to track it down, but as far as I…
- p. 138 …the space people?
A. It was not. Never deliberate on their part, but our aggression and…
- p. 139 …Well I was taken pretty close to one other planet like that of Venus but never…
- p. 140 …to class-room, for graduation which is never attained because eternity is eternity.
Q. Do they…
- p. 145 …we are making them," stated Mr. Quarles.
Never in the history of our subject have I…
- p. 151 …I have never said that the Big Four gathered to discuss the question of the UFO…
- p. 152 …The real issues at Geneva are not yet known, and may never be, but we are…
- p. 157 …a subjective reason why more stories have never been related, especially so, where PROMINENT PEOPLE are…
- p. 158 …Wallace's mother, whom we later interviewed, claimed that her son had never been so frightened…
- p. 167 …the phenomenon of Horseheads, N.Y., may never be known.
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## THE SWEDISH GHOST ROCKETS by S…
- p. 172 …ALTHOUGH THE STORY WAS WIDELY REPORTED, IT WAS NEVER PUBLISHED IN FULL OUTSIDE SCANDINAVIA. NOW Flying…
- p. 174 …I was never more than three or four minutes walk from the girls, and I reckon…
- p. 176 …to time in the area, but they never heard of them flying at night.
"What I…
- p. 183 …He could not say whether or not it might be a meteor as he had never…
- p. 201 …Besides, you never know what they could do to you . . . There is no material we know…
- p. 213 …Church-because of the probability that they never contracted "original sin."
## Flying Discs
Sir,—Periodically, Mr…
- p. 216 …phenomena, there are many individuals who have never reported "sightings" of their own or knowledge.
Hope…
- p. 222 …France, never to be outdone, when it comes to autumn tourist attractions, has also had its…
- p. 223 …It is necessary for me to state here that I would never falsely colour or manufacture…
- p. 224 …They said this because they had never seen a modern deep-water diving suit.
What they…
- p. 231 …first reports were immediately followed by a never-ending chain of fantastic stories mostly created by…
- p. 242 …I do not know what it was, I have never seen such an object before. President…
- p. 248 …We have never heard of & find it difficult to imagine any meteors or aurorae presenting such…
- p. 249 …He says that he and his companions never thought of flying saucers, being sure that it…
- p. 254 …Civil Aviation Dept for some years, but never with the openness and seriousness of these last…
- p. 256 # ore Observers Confirm
# "NORTHERN ADVOCATE"
# Seeing Strange Object
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"I HAVE never seen anything…
- p. 257 …the man and his family.
"I have never seen anything like it in my life," he…
- p. 263 …or Martians, they reiterate that astronomers have never made any observations which could indicate a high…
- p. 271 …With this weight of evidence you could well ask why saucers have never been, officially accepted…
- p. 272 …chances are greater—a planet we have never even heard of. But wherever they come from…
- p. 273 …I have never seen a saucer—but at least I have seen Mars! Vow the first…
- p. 280 Acura shall call the existing currency
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- p. 286 …The world may never know, although he definitely has had a hand in the disk project…
- p. 302 …observing of evidences, while those who have never seen a flying saucer make a show by…
- p. 306 …In 18 years of flying I have never seen anything like it. If it had been…
- p. 307 …and not forgetting those very important ones never to be forgotten sightings. We sincerely hope you…
- p. 308 …likes light reading as well, but can never find the time now, so great is the…
- p. 320 …Another official said that the Air Force had never accepted this theory. By classifying sightings as…
- p. 321 …I never saw it happen before. If the acceleration explanation is true, then the speeds involved…
- p. 324 …The Air Force has never denied that such a possibility exists. Some of the personnel believe…
- p. 332 …more closely, I am sure they would never be so keen to rashly debunk it. Right…
- p. 356 …These have never been confused with flying saucers as some sources of information contend.
Recent events…
- p. 367 …happenings in the sky that science had never been able satisfactorily to explain.
Unger, beginning in…
- p. 373 …Forefathers, the great majority of their ranks never dreamed of or envisaged that which is ordinary…
- p. 401 …nuclli open to doubt because there have never been reports of them from sailors, astronomers and…
- p. 416 …to bright red. "I wish I had never seen it," he said. "It's too fantastic…
- p. 436 …In spite of all the flying saucer reports all over the world, science has never been…
PRESS CU NG:
From: "Domininn" Wellington, N.Z. Date: 22 NO. 1952
# Astronomer Says Flying Saucers Have Basis In Natural Phenomena
DUNEDIN, November 21 (P.A.).—"Flying saucers!" say the uninitiated. "Natural phenomena", retorts Mr. W. D. Anderson, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a life-long sky gazer. In an interview yesterday Mr. Anderson
In an interview yesterday Mr. Anderson scouted recent reports of unidentified objects soaring and swooping through space. "While not prepared to suggest that!
"While not prepared to suggest that every observer has been mistaken in his identification of these mysterious objects, I am firmly of the opinion that all these apparitions have been in fact natural phenomena," he said.
"It is surely significant that none of the recent reports emanated from an established observatory. Experienced sky-gazers who study the heavens as a matter of routine when conditions are favourable have reported nothing unusual," said Mr. Anderson.
He went on to say that it was also significant that at the time of the reports at least two major planets had been prominent in the evening sky-
Jupiter in the north and Venus in the west.
Meteors and shooting stars could also be observed on most clear nights. Clouds, with wind and other atmospheric conditions, would account for the seeming movement of these planets.
"To dub them 'flying saucers' is in my opinion natural enough but absolutely erroneous. Mr. Anderson said. Anyone who sees what he thinks is a flying saucer is at liberty to ring me up and tell me about it. I will try to give an accurate identification, using binoculars or a refracting telescope.
"I am sceptical about these reports but I am very willing to co-operate in the matter of identification."
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