Case · UFO Afrinews No 22, July 2000
Out of Africa: Boianai, Papua-New Guinea, June 1959
1959 ยท Boianai Mission, remote mountainous coast reached only by boat or small aircraft, 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
On the evening of 26 June 1959 Father William Gill of the Anglican mission at Boianai saw a brilliant light above Venus descend toward him. He called teacher Stephen Gill Moi, who said he had watched a similar object the previous Sunday, and Eric Langford; soon about 37 people watched a solid, dull yellow-orange craft, its lower section perhaps 35 feet across, hovering 300 to 400 feet out to sea. At least four figures in tight garments moved about an upper deck and a bright blue beam shone skyward at 45 degrees. The craft moved west, swooped south, turned red and vanished into cloud; a second object hovered over the sea. Next evening the figures waved back at the crowd and the craft swayed in answer to torch flashes. Up to eight objects appeared on 28 June, and loud bangs at the Mission House were never explained.
What Hind made of it
Hind asks what more proof people want: a Brisbane University graduate and church minister with no reason to lie, 37 witnesses and 26 signed statements, consistent for over 40 years; she ridicules the Venus, cloud-reflection and US Marines explanations and notes Menzel worked undercover for the US government debunking UAPs.
Explanation offered
RAAF: misinterpreted astronomical observations of planets; British Air Ministry: reflections on cloud cover; Dr Donald Menzel: Venus plus myopia and astigmatism; rumour of US Marines working on an advanced craft
In their words
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For heavens' sake, what more proof do people want?
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[so how about when there were no clouds?]
Cross references
- Australasian Ufologist Vol 3 No 4
- VUFORS, Melbourne, Victoria