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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.
“Anderson”4 pages
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## 'FLYING SAUCERS' Sir, In view of the fact that the flying saucer epidemic has now reached New Zealand, the following report contained in the "United States News." January 6, 1950, should be of interest: "After two years spent running down 375 rumours and reports of mysterious flying saucers, the Air Force closed down its investigation last week with this conclusion: There is no such thing. The flying saucers that hundreds of people think they have seen are really: (1) Misinterpretation of various conventional objects; (2) a mild form of mass hysteria; or (3) noakes.—I am, etc.
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