This whole text is from ‘the hynek ufo report’ I kind of summarized the whole thing because it was too long… i hope you guys enjoy
A STRANGE NEW DEvice of you americans
This case has always intrigued me and i was therefore grateful when the opportunity presented itself to visit boianai with rev. Crutwell We located six of the original witnesses and even though the sighting was by then fifteen years old(it took place in the latter part of june 1959), the event was rendered in great detail. Rev. Crutwell was to act as my interpreter with the natives. At first, many of them felt that i represented a government authority and would not open up but after a while the information flowed freely how accurately, i have, of course, no way of knowing. But from the facial expressions and gestures of the natives, i sensed that the event had been real as far as they were concerned. The reader should bear in mind that in addition to the father gill sighting, there were sixty-one others that year in the same general area. The following table shows that the distribution of the majority according to locality Boianai 18,baniai 13,ruabapain 7,daguea 6,dabora 5, giwa 4
There have been many references to father gill’s careful note-taking while the event was in progress, this in itself is most unusual, especially when a flashlight was needed to record most of his observations. But i know father gill as a painstaking, methodical, and unexcitable person, just the sort to stand calmly by and take notes at the height of the exciting action. The blue book files contain these notes, since they were officially reported to the project by the air attaché in Australia just a few will suffice to nightlight the action: 6:45pm-patches of low clouds, sighted bright white light from front door 6:50-clear over dagura and menape. Call stephen and eric langford 6:52-stephen arrives. Confirms not a star. Five hundred feet? Orange? 6:55-sent eric to call people. One object on top moves(man?) now three men, moving glowing doing something on deck, gone. 7:00- men one and two again 7:04-gone again 7:10-cloud ceiling covered sky; ceiling 2,000feet(and thus, no stars or planets) thin electric blue spot light, men gone spotlight still there 7:12-men one and two appear again blue light 7:20-UFO goes through clouds 8:28-clear sky here, heavy cloud over dagura. Ufo seen by me overhead called station people 8:50-clouds forming again. Big one stationary and larger-the original? Others coming and going through the clouds. As they descend through the clouds, light reflected like a large halo on the cloud-no more than 2,000feet probably less(height of clouds is judged by height of nearby mountain) 9:46-overhead ufo reappears is hovering 10:50–no sign of UFO 11:04-heavy rain
Gill had drawings made and obtained the signatures of witnesses. There were thirty-eight in all, of whom twenty-five signed the report(the children were excluded) apart from gill, the witnesses included five papuan teachers and three medical assistants.
Father gill told me, as he has told others, of the first sighting of the bright light. He had just had dinner, and as he came out the front door of the mission house he glanced up at the sky and saw venus, but in addition to venus he saw a bright white light, somewhat above venus. Part of the sighting was made under an overcast venus. With the objects ascending and descending through clouds, casting bright halos on clouds as they passed through! Blue book labeled the sighting ‘stars and planets’ but how could this have been possible? In all my career as an astronomer, i have yet to observe stars or planets appearing to descend through clouds to a height of less than two thousand feet, illuminating the clouds as they did so. In addition, father gill estimated the height of the disc to be three to four hundred feet, and it’s apparent diameter about five inches at arm’s length. Teacher stephen said that if he put his hand out closed, it would cover about half of it, i have yet to see venus appearing larger than my fist. Father gill’s account continues: As we watched it, man came out from this object and appeared on the top of it, on what appeared to be a deck on top of the huge disc. There were four men in all, occasionally two, then one, then three, then four. We noted the various times the men appeared and then later on all those witnesses who were quite sure our records were right, and that they agreed(they) saw the men at the same time that i did were able to sign their names as witnesses of what we assumed to be human activity or beings of some sort on the object itself.
The next night was even more interesting! One of the natives, annie laurie borowa, ran into father gill’s study in great excitement and asked him to come outdoors. The sighting he made then rules out venus even more completely. Gill’s first notes were at 6:02pm when the sun close to the equator, would not yet have set, although it would have been behind the mountains. Under no circumstances would venus have been bright enough in the daytime sky to have caused all that excitement among the natives. Again we have gill’s own words:
We stood in the open to watch, although the sun had set(behind the mountain) it was quite light for the following fifteen minutes. We watched figures appear on top—four of them—there was no donut that they were human. This is possibly the same object that i took to be the ‘mother ship’ last night. Two smaller UFOs were seen at the same time, stationary, one over the hills, west, and one overhead. On the large one, two of the figures seemed to be doing something in the center of the deck—they were occasionally bending over and raising their arms as though adjusting or setting up something. One figure seemed to be standing, looking down on us(a group about a dozon) Now comes the climax. father gill stretched his arm above his head and waved. To his surprise, the figure waved back. One of his companions waved both arms over his head and then the two outside figures did the same. There was more waving and now all four of the beings seemed to wave back!
There seemed to be no doubt that our movements were answered. All the mission boys made audible gasps. As dark was beginning to close in, i sent eric for a torch and directed a series of long dashes towards the UFO. After a minute or two of this, the UFO apparently acknowledged by making several waving motions back and forth(in a sideways direction, like a pendulum) the waving by us was repeated and this was followed by more passes with the torch and then the UFO began become slowly bigger, apparently coming in our direction, it ceased after perhaps half a minute and came on no further. After a further two or three minutes, the figures apparently lost interest in us for they disappeared below deck
Father gill also indicated that the whole group had begun to shout and to make beckoning motions to the men to descend, but there was absolutely no response, other than that already noted. Finally, there were no sounds whatever emanating from either the beings or their machine.
After evensong, the visibility was poor, the sky was covered with clouds, and no UFOs were in sight. At 10:40pm gill’s notes read: a terrific explosion just outside the mission house. Nothing seen’ according to curtwell’s account, the explosion made gill jump out of bed and gave him a tremendous shock The explosion, however had awakened everyone on the station. Whether this ‘penetrating ear splitting’ explosion had anything to do with the ufo is obviously conjectural it was just one additional item to be added to the bizarre catalogue of events
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