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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.

  • p. 10 …They passed over Christchurch about 1.30 p.m. As the aircraft moved on, they left…
  • p. 24 25 NOV 1955 # AIR DEPARTMENT. CHRISTCHURCH, N.W.4. 23rd November, 1955. The Director of Civil…
  • p. 25 …2 R.D. , CHRISTCHURCH. The Regional Superintendent, Civil Aviation Administration, CHRISTCHURCH AIRPORT. Dear Sir, The following…
  • p. 36 …12168 0182/50652 90/12165 17/16399 CHRISTCHURCH/AUCKLAND: 67/39485 CA 90/34627 CA WELLINGTON…
  • p. 165 …It was also seen by Palmerston North and Christchurch residents in N.Z. about that time…
  • p. 186 …which he witnessed from his home in Christchurch at 10.21 p.m. on the 20th…
  • p. 211 …The "Star-Sun" reporter and his wife were travelling by car towards Christchurch at 3.46…
  • p. 219 …Coutts Island to the back of the Christchurch Airport and though the cloud bank was about…
  • p. 226 …Carter had reported the incident to the Christchurch, N.Z., Press, and later decided to write…
  • p. 255 …had the pleasure of meeting for the first time, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin Representatives, Branch leaders…
  • p. 266 …It made a whizzing noise like a spinning top, they said. # MYSTERIOUS LIGHT IN SKY CHRISTCHURCH…
  • p. 299 …REPRESENTATIVES Two further representatives have been appointed in two southern cities, Christchurch and Dunedin. Representatives are…
  • p. 307 …Secretary 55 Tedder Avenue Christchurch E.3. ## WAS IT A METEOR? ## PERHAPS ONE DAY WE WILL…
  • p. 312 …received two other reports around this time one from a lady in Christchurch and another from…
  • p. 313 …August 25th Christchurch 6.40 p.m. fast moving strange light horizon tal course, in view…
  • p. 314 ## FLYING SAUCERS PAGE 18 November 17th Christchurch 11p.m. two further observers of fast m ing…
  • p. 332 …8.30 Palmerston North, Wellington, and Christchurch. A bright object, reported by many to be round…
  • p. 333 …March 18, Christchurch. Dr C.D. Ellyet, Senior Lecturer in physics at Canterbury University College, claims…
  • p. 359 …Sam Rix, Tauranga; Miss Ethne Hamber, Christchurch; Miss V.E.J.Allan, Dunedin; Dr.Benjamin D…
  • p. 393 …A passenger on the Express from Christchurch saw an unusual light in the sky near Camara…
  • p. 394 …Southland, North Otago, the West Coast and Christchurch. Some people who said they had seen it…
  • p. 396 …was travelling with his son from Christchurch to Wellington on the Saturday night when they saw…
  • p. 397 …The Christchurch observers given an apparent size of half a crown indicating a height of 6000…
  • p. 398 …Nelson Yellow/White 10.30? Cheviot? Blue Green Christchurch Blue S. Hissing Camara Blue 11.8…
  • p. 400 …9 17 minutes Christchurch/New Brighton 29.10.52 9 p.m. 1 Taradale, Napier 30…
  • p. 412 …Cigar South Nil GREEN LIGHT. Moving swiftly. Christchurch 13.10.52 Nil One 5 secs Starline…
  • p. 413 …minutes Saucer Nil Nil Redlights around lights Christchurch 3.11.52 1115 pm Two one minute…
  • p. 414 …Christchurch 6.12.52 1015 pm One 30 secs Disc South Hissing Blue in colour Ryeburn…
  • p. 418 …Williamson, has written to the "Evening Post" to say that the "flying saucer" seen in Christchurch…
  • p. 421 # BLUE DISC THAT HISSED South-Bound 'Saucer' Seen At Three Points PEOPLE in Christchurch, Kyeburn, and…
  • p. 428 …Otago, from the West Coast and from Christchurch, among others. Some people, who said they had…
  • p. 436 …Auckland astronomers and meter- ## Riccarton Run Confused By CHRISTCHURCH, November unsettled nature of the weather heavy…
Mr. F. W. G. Dickeson Dickeson Studios Timaru, New Zealand

Dear Mr. Dickeson:

Please forgive my long delay in answering your most welcome and interesting letter of July 30th. It has been impossible for me to keep up with even the important letters, such as yours, let alone the hundreds of others that have piled up during this, year.

I am most interested in your suggestion of window displays and a model plaster-of-Paris Seuser. This should prove of much interest to the citizens of both your city and your nation, if others followed your lead. I do have small 4x5 inch glossy prints of the photographs I have taken, but I believe you could secure large display photos from the publisher. Do you know whether the book is being published in Australia or are copies being shipped from England? I understand it is the former.

Reports from your part of the world indicate that there have been numerous sightings there this year and a great deal of controversy as to the reality and purpose of space visitors. I can assure you they are very real and in time all who are willing to believe will have proof presented to their own eyes.

Since my first meeting as told in FLYING SAUCERS HAVE LANDED I have had a number of other meetings with both men and women of other planets. Those I have met come only as friends and with a desire to help us on Earth, if we are willing to be helped. But they will not force their way of life upon us. I have been in their ships and have been taken through space out as far as our Moon. Our scientists have much to learn about space itself, as I saw it while travelin through it.

All this and much of the wisdom which they have shared with me regarding Life and its purpose, along with a knowledge of the way of life on other planets has been written into manuscript form and is now in the hands of the publishers to be released next spring. The title INSIDE THE SPACE SHIP.

In the meantime, for continued interest in this subject, two new books have just been published both in England and here in the States. They are: FLYING SAUCER FROM MARS by George Allingham, by Frederick Muller, Ltd. SPACE, GRAVITY AND THE FLYING SAUCER by Leonard G. Cramp, M.S.I.A., published by T. Warner Laurie, Ltd. Both publishers are in London, England.

Regarding the tapes of lectures I have made, do such things for personal files but have never had copies made. I can see the value in your suggestion and will give it a good deal of thought, now that the me. for the next book is off my hands. Similar requests are coming to me from a number of others and you are quite right in saying that this way will reach a far greater number of people than I could ever hope to reach personally. However, I have not yet worked out a financial solution. Tapes cost a good deal of money and it would require at least two recorders to make duplicates of a lecture. So far I do not have that kind of money. But perhaps in time this will all work out. I am sure it will if this is the way the people should be given the Truth of the friendliness of our Brothers and Sisters whose homes are on other planets, sisters in space to our own world. I sincerely appreciate the offer of your time and efforts in this respect and shall keep you ever in mind so that I will notify you immediately when I have any such tapes that I can send you. Incidentally, what would be the custom on such things if I am able to send one or more to you?

My best wishes to you for a happy holiday season.

Most sincerely,

George Almstedt

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