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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. 66 …The period was March or April 1943 during the advance of the 8th Army and I…
  • p. 129 …Having made itself familiar with the many theories advanced to explain the "saucers," and having made…
  • p. 130 …most advanced designs and comprehensions. phenomena explanation can account for, or satisfactorily explain away the hundreds…
  • p. 160 …That month the advanced training course was instruction in night flying. The T6's went up…
  • p. 168 …No nation - Russia least of all - would imperil the secrets of an advanced new weapon by…
  • p. 180 …The committee, having made itself familiar with the many theories advanced to explain the Saucers, having…
  • p. 184 …to the 27th Feb., the above mentioned difficulties with duplicating printing machine, and the arrival of…
  • p. 213 …The committee agreed that the first martian should be given the following meal: Oysters, lobsters, a…
  • p. 225 …They were not advancing in a straight line, but with the rapid and short movement of…
  • p. 238 …on the runway which took off rapidly as he advanced to wards it) the firemans etory…
  • p. 263 …friendly, if unintelligible, advances to startled peasants, or nall them to the spot with a hypnotic…
  • p. 274 …The future must hold even greater advancement than we can imagine at present." Let us turn…
  • p. 290 …Some of the explanations advanced from time to time are an insult to an observer's…
  • p. 302 …In other words, they are a good deal nearer today the position I advanced in "Behind…
  • p. 314 …Then I saw advancing great heavens. the dull grey-white shape of an airship. Impossible ??, However…
  • p. 315 …right front I saw another of the same airships advancing. I fixed my gaze on it…
  • p. 322 …Theories that he wasx"chasing" the planet Venis or the Moon were advanced but not accepted…
  • p. 324 …One theory advanced from time to time is that the saucers are some revolutionary type of…
  • p. 327 …It is the only theory advanced to date which has been found to conform acceptably with…
  • p. 336 …One passenger advanced the theory that it might be a message from Mars. At about the…
  • p. 345 …The publishers state that "this is one of the most startling books ever published." The claim…
  • p. 417 …no beings more advanced than us in other worlds. In view of the fact that other…
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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