Part 1 Copy/^ of 34 NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE FORCE UNIDENTIFIED File Number: AIR 39/3/3 Volume 1 - Parts 1 and 2 File Title: Flying Saucers File Timespan: Opened: 1952 - Closed 1955 File Declassified: September 2010 Location of Original File: Heid at Archives New Zealand Access to Original File: Restricted until 2025 File Contains: Reports of sightings from members of the public and military personnel, numerous press clippings, copies of the Civilian Saucer Investigation Committee (NZ) newsletters and magazines. Sighting investigation reports and opinions from other interested Government departments. NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE FORCE PUBLIC RELEASE OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO) FILES These copied and redacted files of correspondence on Unidentified Flying Objects dating from 1952 to 2009 have been Declassified and released to the public by the New Zealand Defence Force under the Official Information Act. Access to the original files held by Archives New Zealand is restricted up until the year 2050 for Personal Privacy reasons. These copied files have had the personal details of members of the public making UFO reports removed to preserve their privacy. . Personal details of service personnel and civilians employed by the New Zealand Defence Force and other Government Departments and Agencies have not been removed. No other Information has been removed or omitted from these files. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF FILES Correspondence on Flying Saucers began in New Zealand Defence Force Unidentified (UFO) and Unidentified Aerial Sightings (UAS) until the present. The files contain reports of sightings by private individuals and military personnel, investigations by Defence and other Government Departments and agencies into these reports, newspaper clippings on UFOs and letters from individuals who claim to be in touch with alien beings and craft. 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AIR FORCE MESSAGE SECURITY CATEGORY Regiitry File No. Serial No. and Date : AIR DEPARTMENT Time Received: Time Despatched: j ATTENTION INTELLIGENCE. GHAHjaittoR) ^ LIGHT. THHIY BOm 2JAW THB PSOOfIte)p glRBOTI^j)^ LADIES SAY T]^ LIGHT BSILLlANf^ .10 A Jf0piAL#LIGHT. IT LASTED FOR TREMENDOUS ^ ;SA^ T^RE WERE 6i^ OR TWO STARS ABOUT AT STAHBOAia) NAVIGATION DISTRIBUTION: i7i.22aiif Action copy. Info, copy Aiicklaiid Sky ; 4 ^.Ught^ object In the sky. .flying silently ai^ gregt sj)eed, was se^V lily iMr D. W. >Paul, of Hendon Avei^e, Avondale, early * yesterday morning. With him at fhetime was an Itaxl driVq*, nUV u thevtaxi driver saw object ifirst* ;said Mr Paul yesterday. We were going down Hendon; Avenue about |l a.m. and the object was flyihg paral- lel with us aind'to' the south. I :At first there was a swishing noise, rather like a jet. It appeared Jb be a Jong object with three or four lighted wmdow.s, but the windows were much bigger than usual qd aircraft. It passed us in. uhtUnny .silence. The most remarkable . fact was the absence of ny noise. It was visible to us for- about four minutes before van- ishing info a cloud bank. ' Mr Pnnt he stayed bufside . for some , tiihfe in the hope ' of catching another glimpse of the object. A' little while later an aircraft (later identi- fied as an'R.N.Z.A.F. Sunderland.) flew at ;right 'angles- to' the object's cbiirse with its landing lights' blinking! He said it was completely, different from the 'other object. . rog-sS}? 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Givil Aviation Administration, Air Department, Private Bag, Vi/ELLINGTON> Attached is copy of letter received from concerning a flying object seen by him on 9th November, 1955* This letter is forwarded for your information and any recording action v/hich is being undertaken following recent published reports of similar sightings of unidentified flying (L.E* Duke) REGIONAL AIRWAYS OPPIGER. C/- W.Z. Broadcasting Service, Gebbies Pass, CHRISTCHURCH. The Regional Superintendent, Civil Aviation Administration, CHRISTCHURCH AIRPORT. Dear Sir, The follov/ing report is made as possibly being oY interest to your department, although it is not knov/n to the v/riter, if any official attention is given to such matters. On Wednesday, the 9th November, at 8,18 p.m.. , I was sitting in my car at this station when I noticed a brightly lit object travelling across the sky. It was approc imately south east of' the station, and appeared to be travelling from north east to south v/esto I was able to watch it for four to five seconds, before it was hidden by an adjacent building. During this time,- the distance travelled would subtend an angle of about thirty degrees from uiy point of view, or about six degrees per second. The actual speed would of course depend on the distance betv/een niyself and the object. The length of it would be comparable with say six inches at a hundred feet. The angle of altitude would be about fifteen degrees from the horizontal. Although I have been rather sceptical about such x^eports , and have attributed them to meteors, etc., I was convinced that this did not line up with anything I have ever seen in the sky in N.^., or anywhere else. The main reason for not conf vising it with meteors, was that it had a clearly defined outlined shape, rather than a mere source of light. I have sketched this belov/. It v/as no normal .aircraft, as it was entii^ely illuminated, with a bjruish v/hite light, and trailed a streamer of light of the same hue. As far as could be judged, the ti-evel path was straight and level, parallel with the ground. I heard no noise from it, but as the car windows were closed, there could have been some v/ith