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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.
“Adelaide”7 pages
--- The following information of a "sighting" was reported to me by employed as a temporary clerk in this Directorate. On 10th November 1952 at 1915 hours, a crescent shape object, electric blue in colour, with the horns of the crescent pointing in the direction of flight. It was in the "banked" position of a turning aircraft and disappeared in a northerly direction over the hills of Khandallah. The object was viewed from the Terrace when walking towards Parliament buildings. It was visible for only about two or three seconds. 11. 11.52 Dr Cusen 1. S1.
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