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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.
MESSAGE FROM : AIR TRAFFIC CENTRE , 24/1/56. Report from Auckland sighting a flying saucer. Mt Roskill, Auckland, Phone at 23.45 on Saturday 21st January states that he and two friends sighted a large blue round light shaped like an orange but flat on top. It was stationary and left no trail. They saw it for about 10 seconds and then it disappeared, and they said they were looking east from Mt. Roskill at the time."
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