Case · UFO Afrinews No 20, July 1999
Tom Drury's confiscated film, Papua (book review retelling)
1953 ยท Papua, Papua New Guinea
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Among the confiscation cases Randles cites, Wintle mentions the film shot by aviation expert Tom Drury in Papua in August 1953. Drury got his film back, but every frame showing the object, said to have been captured in wonderful detail and clarity, had been cut out. Wintle uses it to illustrate what he sees as the most consistent and successful activity of the men in black, whether government or alien agents: confiscating photographic evidence of sightings and encounters. He adds that UAP groups are infiltrated by people who do no research but attend every meeting where important cases are discussed, and that libel laws make it hard to name them.
What Hind made of it
Wintle presents it as a pattern of evidence suppression that happens again and again.
In their words
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all the footage depicting the UFO in wonderful detail and clarity had been excised
Cross references
- The Truth Behind the Men in Black