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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.
“United Press”10 pages
## FLYING SAUCERS (?) On 16th September 1952, Wg. Cdr. Gibson, the Director of Civil Aviation stated that on 12th or 13th September, in the early evening, he saw 3 or 4 bright white lights burst in the air over Mount Victoria. On the 15th September at 1755 hrs he saw two similar balls of light burst in the northern sky. Small traces of smoke were left behind. Enquiries made at Carter Observatory show that the above occurrences are consistent with "daylight meteorites" which are visible in September and October. Round & crooked . I. S. 1 17th September, 1952 FILE. OCT 1953 11 Initials
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