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  1. 01PDFRoyal New Zealand Air Force / Ministry of Defencep.3

    Volume 2 of AIR 39/3/3 (1956-1979), the RNZAF UFO file's middle stretch. The departmental record running unbroken across more than two decades of incoming sighting reports.

    AIR 39/3/3 Volume 2 covers 1956-1979, the RNZAF's middle decades of UFO-desk paperwork. The file is the running ledger of how the New Zealand Defence Force handled UAP correspondence across the Cold War, including the period in which neighbouring countries were standing up dedicated programs (US Project Blue Book, Australian RAAF Department of Air files, Canadian Project Magnet).

    → RNZAF UFO File, AIR 39/3/3 Volume 2 (1956–1979)

  2. 02PDFRoyal New Zealand Air Force / Ministry of Defencep.6

    AIR 1630/2 Volume 2 (1990-2009). Two decades of RNZAF UFO desk paperwork running into the late-2000s, the final stretch of the official New Zealand record before the 2010 batch release.

    AIR 1630/2 Volume 2 covers 1990-2009, two decades of RNZAF UFO desk paperwork. It is the final stretch of the official New Zealand record before the 2010 batch declassification, the moment the NZDF opened the back catalogue to public view.

    → RNZAF UFO File, AIR 1630/2 Volume 2 (1990–2009)

  3. 03PDFRoyal New Zealand Air Force / Ministry of Defencep.1

    AIR 1630/2 Volume 1 (1984-1989), the RNZAF's successor UFO file. The institutional record of how the desk processed UAP reports in the decade after AIR 39/3/3 was closed.

    AIR 1630/2 Volume 1 is the successor file to AIR 39/3/3, opened after the original UFO file closed. It covers 1984-1989, the period in which the RNZAF continued to receive and log UAP reports while New Zealand's defence reorganisation was redrawing the institutional perimeter around how those reports were handled.

    → RNZAF UFO File, AIR 1630/2 Volume 1 (1984–1989)

  4. 04PDFRoyal New Zealand Air Force / Ministry of Defencep.3

    RNZAF UFO file AIR 39/3/3 Volume 1, the country's earliest official UAP correspondence. Opened November 1952 as 'Flying Saucers,' closed December 1955, centred on the 31 October 1955 NAC airliner encounter between Ohura and Raglan.

    AIR 39/3/3 Volume 1 is New Zealand's earliest official UAP correspondence file. It was opened in November 1952 under the title 'Flying Saucers' (formerly numbered 39/3/676) and closed in December 1955. The volume centres on the 31 October 1955 NAC airliner encounter between Ohura and Raglan, which triggered a ministerial investigation. The file describes its own contents as reports of sightings by private individuals and military personnel, departmental investigations, newspaper clippings, and letters from individuals claiming contact with alien beings and craft.

    → RNZAF UFO File, AIR 39/3/3 Volume 1 (1952–1955)

  5. 05PDFRoyal New Zealand Air Force / Ministry of Defencep.1

    File AIR 244/10/1 Volume 1 was opened in 1959 and closed in 1983, with the original held at Archives New Zealand and access to the original restricted until 2040.

    Royal New Zealand Air Force file AIR 244/10/1 Volume 1, opened 1959 and closed 1983, holding station-level UFO sighting reports, the Moreland-sighting correspondence, the 1978 Kaikoura material, and the 1972 Ashburton space-debris event.

    → RNZAF UFO File, AIR 244/10/1 Volume 1 (1959–1983)

  6. 06PDFRoyal New Zealand Air Force / Ministry of Defencep.1

    File AIR 1080/6/897 Volume 1 covers RNZAF investigations of unidentified visual and radar sightings on the East Coast of the South Island in December 1978; opened December 1978, closed July 1981.

    Declassified RNZAF Volume 1 file AIR 1080/6/897 collecting interviews, DSIR working papers, and outside analyses of the December 1978 Kaikoura radar-visual UFO sightings, opened December 1978 and closed July 1981.

    → Kaikoura Lights: RNZAF's Unreplicated Footage Case

  7. 07PDFRoyal New Zealand Air Force / Ministry of Defencep.1

    File AIR 39/3/3 Volume 3 was opened in 1979 and closed in 1980, containing reports of UFO sightings from the public and military personnel, correspondence with NZ and overseas UFO research groups, and a press release summary of the 1978 Kaikoura investigation.

    Volume 3 of the Royal New Zealand Air Force UFO correspondence file AIR 39/3/3, covering 1979-1980 reports and inquiries in the aftermath of the December 1978 Kaikoura sightings.

    → RNZAF UFO File, AIR 39/3/3 Volume 3 (1979–1980)

  8. 08PDFRoyal New Zealand Air Force / Ministry of Defencep.1

    Cover sheet identifies the file as AIR 39/3/3A Volume 1, Parts 1 & 2, opened 1979 and closed 1984, declassified September 2010, with the original held at Archives New Zealand and restricted until 2043.

    Declassified Royal New Zealand Air Force subfile AIR 39/3/3A Volume 1, Parts 1 and 2, holding 1979-1984 correspondence from a single Christchurch writer on what they called the 'Ethology of Light' alongside RNZAF handling notes.

    → RNZAF UFO File, AIR 39/3/3A Volume 1 (1979–1984)

  9. 09PDFRoyal New Zealand Air Force / Ministry of Defencep.1

    AIR 39/3/3 Volume 4 was opened in January 1981, closed in 1984, declassified in September 2010, and remains restricted at Archives New Zealand until 2054 under Section 9 of the Official Information Act 1982.

    Final volume of the Royal New Zealand Air Force's AIR 39/3/3 UFO correspondence file, covering 1981 to 1984, including the Christchurch and Temuka 1982 sightings and a 1984 Official Information Act dispute over Defence's UFO records.

    → RNZAF UFO File, AIR 39/3/3 Volume 4 (1981–1984)

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