WEBVTT - Boianai 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:04.520 Strange Arrivals is a production of iHeartRadio and Grim and 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:09.440 Mild from Aaron Mackey. For the best experience, listen with headphones. 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:21.480 The second floor of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence contains 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:26.840 three sets of apartments appointed with frescoes, tapestries, and artwork 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.760 dating back as far as the Renaissance. Among the group 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:34.159 of apartments known as the Apartments of the Elements is 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.479 the Hercules Room, and in the Hercules Room is a 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.880 circular portrait of the Madonna and Child and the Infant 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.040 Saint John, whose creation has been attributed to a number 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:48.760 of artists, including Filipino Lippi. It's about what you'd expect 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:52.640 from a Renaissance painting. With that title, Mary praised above 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.640 the Infant Jesus, who reaches out to her while being 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.920 held by the Infant Saint John. Strangely, though, an object 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.760 appears to hover in the air in the background above 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:07.200 Mary's shoulder. A closer look reveals a football shaped entity, 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.080 light gray on top, darker on the bottom, with yellow 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.840 spikes emerging like beams of light. In the background, A 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.800 robed man with a dog looks up at the object. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:23.280 What is going on here? I was finishing a book 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.640 on the Catholic doctrine of purgatory, in which it was 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.760 a huge project. I went to archives all over and 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.720 what I was looking at is Catholics used to do 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.440 devotions to souls in purgatory and that all kind of stopped, 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.360 and they don't do those anymore, and I wanted to 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.480 know why. I am Diana Pasolka, and I'm a professor 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:48.040 at the University of North Carolina and Wilmington, and my 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:53.040 field has been in Catholic history and Catholic traditions. I 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:54.840 found the reasons for that, and I wrote a book 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.600 about it. But I also found that Catholics had a 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.600 lot of experiences of aerial phenomena from basically a thousand 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:05.720 years ago till now. And because the Catholic Church takes 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.840 pretty good notes, they're known for their record keeping. And 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.960 I've been to the Vatican Library and Secret Archive and 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.959 looked at a lot of the documents there. I found 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.520 that there were all of these aerial phenomena incidences, and 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:23.040 the frameworks for understanding those were basically religious. They see 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.839 something like a disk in the sky, and they'd call 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.800 it an angel, or they call it a demon, or 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.440 they call it a lost soul from burgatory. And at 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.440 this point it never occurred to me that these are 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.720 like kind of like UFOs, but they were. They were 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:42.320 unidentified objects that then were identified through Catholic frameworks. Normally, 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.040 when someone sees something that they can't explain, they try 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:50.279 to understand it according to their belief framework. A Renaissance 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.880 Italian sees a desk and uses a Catholic framework to 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:58.079 perceive it as a demon or angel. People now are 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:03.240 culturally ready to identify them UFOs visitors from space or 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:07.639 another dimension. But what happens when the belief in UFOs 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:11.120 becomes the framework that a person uses to interpret things 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.880 that happen in the world around them. That is what 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.600 happens when you look at strange things that occur in 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.000 people's lives and you interpret them with the assumption that 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:26.680 the cause is most likely UFOs. This season on Strange Arrivals, 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.840 we will look at people who are not only sure 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.880 that UFOs are from somewhere else, but if put UFOs 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.280 at the center of their worldviews, what happens when they 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:41.720 become involved in investigating hard to explain events. How does 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.320 their presence affect our perception of the event and even 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:50.200 the experiencers own understanding of what they've been through. But 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.720 to begin the season, we'll set a baseline by looking 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.840 at a case that didn't attract prominent UFO investigators and 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:02.280 see how the witnesses understood there counter. I'm Toby Ball 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:20.680 and this is Strange Arrivals, Episode one, Boyani. On July fifteenth, 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.919 nineteen fifty nine, an Anglican missionary named Father William Gill, 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.840 stationed at the Boyani Mission in Papua New Guinea, wrote 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.760 a letter to Father Norman Cruttwell, who was at the 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:36.159 Anglican mission in Manapi, also in Papua New Guinea. The 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:40.920 letter began, Dan, woman, here is a lot of material, 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.120 the kind you've been waiting for, no doubt, but I 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:45.960 am in some ways sorry that it has to be 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.159 me who supplies it. I just choose at Dagura in 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:53.440 respected my sanity very greatly, and like all madmen, I 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:59.560 myself think my gray cells are okay. This was essentially 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.640 a cover letter for a collection of documents that Gil 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.240 had sent to Crutwell. Together, they told the story of 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.320 a week that began when a distant light was cited, 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:13.719 one that seemingly could not be explained. The week ended 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.039 with an encounter that occurred over three days and was 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:21.200 witnessed by thirty eight people, including Gill, other personnel at 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:26.560 the mission, and local Papuans. So you might be wondering 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.680 where is Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea is the 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:34.599 eastern portion of the island, known as either Papua or 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:38.520 New Guinea. The western portion is a province of Indonesia, 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.080 while Papua New Guinea is now an independent commonwealth. In 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.960 nineteen fifty nine, when these events occurred, it was overseen 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.360 by Australia, which is only eighty miles across the era 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.080 for a sea from the southern tip of the island. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.680 Father Gil and Father Crutwell were two Australian missionaries at 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.279 tiny missionary stations around good Enough Bay, part of the 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.240 peninsula that makes up the easternmost part of the island. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.960 The Gura, which Gil mentions in his letter, is the 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:13.320 headquarters of the Anglican diocese in this area. On June 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.279 twenty first, five days before the first Mass sighting, a 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:21.640 teacher evangelist named Stephen Moy, who was stationed at Boyani 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:25.360 along with Father Gill, saw light in the early hours 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.640 of the morning. This is Gil from a speech given 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.440 later in nineteen fifty nine in England recounting his conversation 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:36.600 with Moy after Moy's sighting. Moy is referred to here 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:42.680 as Stephen moy Gill, one of my head teachers. Teachers 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:47.320 by the name of Stealen moy Gill, which sound about suspicious. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.800 Last Sunday night, I saw a rather sing also is no. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.599 He wrote a report about this event for Gil. It 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.040 began with Moy walking out of his house at one 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.880 in the morning. The text of the report is read 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:12.920 by an actor. I saw a bright white light silently 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:14.840 coming out of a sky from a point about a 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.400 quarter a mile out to see slightly west of boy 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.880 Andei Mission station. It descended from what seemed to be 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.320 a great height, and I thought at first it was 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:27.280 a falling star. He watched for what he estimated to 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.280 be about three minutes as it descended and moved to 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.640 the east along the coast. It settled at what Mooy 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.600 guessed to be about three hundred feet above the sea. 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.880 There it remained stationary for perhaps half a minute and 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.320 gradually decreased in brilliance until the shape of an inverted 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.760 saucer could be discerned, which was tilted backwards with part 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.240 of the base visible. The object then moved upwards and 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.880 disappeared from view into the clouds. Moi also mentioned to 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.880 Gil his first impression upon glimpsing the light at the 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.640 was a light similar to those dropped by planes during 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:07.320 the war. This would be World War Two. Here's Gill 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.920 again talking about his questions to Moy after the sighting. 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.720 Is an object over the sea, and I ask you 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.720 more kinds of questions about his size and shape. I 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.480 wanted naper sixth and what he lack of place? And 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.600 each time he came there he said, no, it was 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:29.400 an the nearest thing that I can relate to. In fact, 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.520 this was not the first time unexplained lights had been 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.040 seen in the area. In a strange coincidence, the day 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.840 before he had his first sighting at Boyani, Gill wrote 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.120 a letter to Reverend David Durry, the acting principle of 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:47.120 Saint Aidan's College in Dagura, an institution for training teacher 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:51.280 evangelists such as Stephen Moy. There are being quite a 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.680 number of reports over the months from reliable witnesses. The 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.000 peculiar thing about these most recent reports is that the 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:02.240 UFOs seem to be stationary Boyanni, or to travel from Boyanny. 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.840 I myself saw a stationary white light twice on the 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.080 same night on April ninth. I do not doubt the 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.800 existence of these things, but my simple mind still requires 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.600 scientific evidence before I can accept from outer space theory. 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.160 I am inclined to believe that probably many UFOs are 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.920 more likely some form of electric phenomena, or perhaps something 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:30.679 broad about by the Aden bomb explosions, etc. Then, addressing 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:35.240 Moy's sighting four days prior, he wrote that Stephen should 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.360 actually make out a saucer could be the work of 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.280 the unconscious mind, as it is very likely that at 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.400 some time he has seen illustrations of some kind in 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.959 a magazine. It is all too difficult to understand for me. 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:54.200 You signed off yours doubting. William gil acknowledged that he 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:58.160 didn't question Moy's version of his sighting. In fact, he 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:02.520 referenced both his and other a similar experiences, but he 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.880 maintained that he did not think that these lights warranted 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:10.240 any undue attention. The very next day, June twenty six, 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.040 Gil again wrote to Dry, but this time his attitude 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:19.840 towards the lights was entirely different. Dear David. Life is strange, 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.240 isn't it. Yesterday I wrote you a letter expressing opinions 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.880 are the UFOs? Now less than twenty four hours later 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.480 I have changed my views somewhat. Last night we are 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.800 Boyani experienced about four hours of UFO activity and there 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.960 is no doubt whatsoever that they are handled by beings 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:42.480 of some kind. At times it was absolutely breathtaking. Here 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:48.559 is the report. This time he signed off cheers, convinced 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.400 Bill what had happened to cause this change of heart. 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.400 Father Gill sent a report on the events of that 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.839 night and the two that followed to Father Norman Crutwell. 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.800 We heard the beginning of the cover letter earlier in 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.640 this episode. Father Gill had taken careful notes of what 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:10.360 he observed during the encounter. Again from his nineteen fifty 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:14.240 nine speech in England, this is what I think right 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.200 for this is the sort of thing that no believe 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.520 unless I write it down. In fact, I went believe 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.720 it unless I write it down either, because you know 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.640 how it is, especially at the tribe. I didn't have 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.040 any whisky on board, but you never know that people 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:31.880 might might believe that I wrote this minutes I minutes. 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:36.080 Whenever anything happened, I put it down, and it was 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.280 just as sit as best I had a write, an 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:44.600 academic approach to I was not excited, not that I remember, certainly, 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.800 and I had a common enough of mind to be 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:51.960 able to because the events was having become Crutwell used 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.360 guils report and his own investigation to author a three 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.840 part article that appeared in the November nineteen sixty one 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:03.400 and January March nineteen sixty two editions of the April Bulletin, 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:08.000 the newsletter of the prominent at the time Aerial phenomena 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:12.640 research organization based in the United States. The text of 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.800 this report reads, father Gill that just had his dinner 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.199 and came out of the front door of the mission house. 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.760 There's a small patch of lawn, a few trees, including 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.440 coconut palms, and then a drop of perhaps fifty feet 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.800 to the shingle beach below. He casually glanced at the 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:33.240 sky and looked for Venus, which was conspicuous at the time. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.880 In his own words, I saw Venus, but I also 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:42.480 saw this sparkling object, which to me was peculiar because 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:47.560 it sparkled, and because it was very very bright, and 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.480 it was above Venus, so that caused me to watch 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.760 it for a while, and then I saw a descent 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:58.960 towards us. Stephen gil Moy, who joined Father Gill a 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:03.640 few minutes later, described it as shining with a bright 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:08.040 white light like at Tilly Lamp. At Tilly Lamp is 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.840 a kerosene lamp, the kind that many people use when camping. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:17.640 Stephen remarks that it appeared to wax and wane in brightness, 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:22.959 as though it was approaching and receding. The object eventually 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:27.240 came fairly close and maintained that distance. This is Father 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:31.040 gil relating this sighting many years later in the strange 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:36.320 nineteen seventy seven film UFOs Are Here the Dao Diaries. 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:42.040 There's just hovering, not very far high up maybe two 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.800 or three hundred feet up in the air, and glowing 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:53.400 and two bipods jutting out from underneath it and sparkling 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:58.600 all around. In his nineteen fifty nine speech, Gil gave 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:03.880 further details about the appearance of the craft, an outdone 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:10.000 of a saucer, a dark portion between it and the 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:15.800 smartly night, so there's a light outside, darkness and the 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:21.440 ardent itself that is most Another most little thing is 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:28.920 the chapter blue electric or light emanating from the top 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:33.240 of the past up towards it, or an electric blue light, 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:38.680 but I think I destroyed as a pencil with light. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:46.320 Again from the text of Crutwell's report, Father Gill states 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.680 that it changed from a brilliant white light when it 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.120 was far off, to a dull yellow or perhaps pale 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.200 orange when it was close. When asked whether he thought 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:00.440 it was metallic, he answered, well, with the pigs solid 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:05.240 certainly not transparent or gaseous, we just assumed that it 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.680 was metallic from our own experience of things that travel 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:13.080 and carry men. All witnesses agree that it was circular, 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.400 that it had a wide base and a narrower a deck, 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.640 that it had a type of legs beneath it, that 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.240 it produced at times a shaft of blue light which 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.480 shone upwards into the sky at an angle of about 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:32.800 forty five degrees. So to summarize, Gil and his companion 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.960 saw a late descend to within a fairly close distance 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.040 to where they stood on the shore, at which point 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.400 they could see that it was a craft of some type. 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.800 It was saucer shaped, and let with an additional light 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.440 beam reaching into the sky. There also seemed to be 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.760 a light that is somewhat separate from the craft hovering 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.880 close to it. But this was not all they saw 0:15:56.280 --> 0:16:02.000 after the break. Strange rivals will return in a moment. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.440 Father William Gill and a group of other missionaries and 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.840 local people had watched a light approach until it came 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.120 close enough to make out that it was a physical 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.840 craft hovering above the ocean. When we think about a 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.400 classic flying saucer or UFO, I think we picture a 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.200 craft that is fully enclosed, like an airplane. But Gil 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.400 reported that this craft had a deck like a boat 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.920 from his nineteen fifty nine speech. Was a thick structure 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.760 the two pass of what I called the body of 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:53.200 the crowd, and then there was what I interpreted as 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:59.280 a superstructure on top of that. He was on the case, 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:06.480 and as reminded us, I think of the craft and 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:11.560 on this stack, Gil and the assembled crowd sat figures 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:16.000 from Crutwell's report. As we watched it, men came out 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.359 from this object and appeared on the top of it, 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.960 on what seemed to be a deck on top of 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:25.200 a huge disk. There were four men in all, occasionally two, 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:31.280 then one, then three, then four. We noted the various 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.720 times the men appeared, and then later on all those 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.480 witnesses who were quite sure that our records were right, 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.200 and that they agreed with them and saw the men 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.520 at the same time as I did, were able to 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.879 sign their names as witnesses of what we assumed to 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.919 be human activity or beings of some sort on the 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:52.480 object itself. Gil also remarked about the way the blue 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.920 light reflected on the figures on the craft, in addition 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.240 to a general glow that he said surrounded them but 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.920 didn't actually touched them, that there was some gap between 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:07.280 them and the lay. He further explained that in his observations, 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:12.680 the men seemed to be illuminated in two ways by 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.960 reflected light as men seen working high up on a 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.520 building at night, brought by the glare of an oxy 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:23.360 aceateleine torch, and b by this curious halo which outlined them, 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:27.359 following every contour of their figures, and yet did not 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:31.439 touch them. In fact, they seemed to be illuminated themselves 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.359 in the same way as the machine was. Gil was 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.160 asked whether the men might have been wearing some kind 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:43.240 of space suits. His reply, according to Crutwell's report, was 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.440 I couldn't say that. Maybe so that would seem to 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.920 be a possible explanation of the double outline, but I 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:58.200 couldn't see any such suits. Crutwell's report continues, I asked 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:00.800 him whether he could see any detail, such as the 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.800 color of their skins. He replied that they were too 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.840 far away to see such details, but that he would 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.960 say they were probably pile As for the details of 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.040 their bodies, all he could be sure of was that 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.679 they had an outline of normal human beings from the 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.480 waist up. Their legs were hidden by the sides of 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:22.320 the craft. If we're in clothes, they were very tight fitting. 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:26.640 In addition to the craft with the figures onboard, there 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:31.600 were other smaller objects Crutwell uses the word discs that 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:35.560 moved around more than the larger craft. They're described as 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:41.960 moving erratically, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, coming closer and then retreating, 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:47.600 occasionally swinging back and forth like a pendulum. Several witnesses 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.720 later drew pictures of the bigger ship. While there are 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.800 minor differences in things such as the number of legs 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:58.720 descending from the bottom, they're clearly the same object around disc, 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:03.040 perhaps fairly thick, with the smaller structure resting on top 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:07.240 on which the figures walked. There are interesting differences in 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:11.080 perspective as well, with some drawings depicting the angle at 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.160 which the object was sited and others showing the objects 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.600 straight on, though during the sighting they were always looking 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:21.840 up at it. At nine thirty that night, after nearly 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:27.080 three hours, the crafts finally departed, wavering slightly, then taking 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:31.359 off at great speed. The largest of them eventually receded 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.040 to a distance where it was merely a pin point 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:38.120 in the sky, and then vanished. And there the encounter 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:43.399 ended for that night, because at about six o'clock the 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:48.399 next evening, a Papuan medical assistant named Anne Laurie Barewa 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.680 called to Father Gill that the large UFO had returned. 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.119 Gill arrived on the scene around two minutes after six 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:58.280 and saw what he thought was the largest of the 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:01.959 craft from the previous night. It seemed a little smaller, 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:05.639 but he attributed that to would probably being further away. 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:09.600 Then Gil called for the others to come to the object. 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:14.280 He reported to Critewell, although the sun had set, it 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.680 was quite light for the following fifteen minutes, we watched 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.879 figures appear on top four of them. There is no 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:23.920 doubt that they were human. This is possibly the same 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.560 object that I took to be the Mothership last night. 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:31.840 Two smaller UFOs were seen at the time, stationary one 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:36.280 above the hills west and another overhead on the large one. 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:38.520 Two of the figures seemed to be doing something near 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.480 the center of the deck. They were occasionally bending over 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:44.119 and raising their arm as though were adjusting or setting 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:47.960 up something not visible. One figure seemed to be standing 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:50.760 looking down at us a group of about a dozen. 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:55.600 This figure stood with his hands on the rail, looking over, 0:21:56.359 --> 0:21:59.720 just as Father Gill said, quote one will look over 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:03.880 the rails of a ship. At this point, Father Gill 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:06.520 decided to wave to the figures on the craft to 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:09.280 see if he could make contact with them. From the 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:15.600 movie UFOs are here the Dao Diaries, And so we waved, 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:19.640 wouldn't it be wonderful if we could get this object 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:23.920 down onto the playing field. And as we waved, wondering 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:27.040 whether we'd get some recognition and whether perhaps they would 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:32.680 understand what we wanted, they waved back. Here's Gill as 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:36.320 told to Crutwell in his report, there seemed to be 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:39.800 no doubt that our movements were answered. All the mission 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:44.800 boys made audible gasps of either joy or surprise. Gil 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:48.399 and his companions proceeded to flash lights on and off 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:52.080 towards the craft, and perceived that these offerings were acknowledged 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:55.000 by the craft, which would make a slight dip in reply. 0:22:56.080 --> 0:22:58.720 They then returned to waving, But the figures on the 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:01.800 craft had returned whatever it was they had been doing, 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:05.160 And we're more interested in what they were doing on 0:23:05.160 --> 0:23:08.199 the south than in us. This was the impressive week off. 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:12.520 I think in my report he will say that great ways, 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:19.080 and then going on with whatever the business was. It 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:21.679 was six thirty at this point, and Gil and his 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:25.680 companions left the scene for dinner. After dinner, they saw 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:28.400 that the big ufo was still there, though it might 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:32.359 have receded somewhat. They then decided to go ahead with 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:36.960 the day's evensong, a church service traditionally held near sunset. 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:40.879 Just prior to the evening service, about seven o'clock, the 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:44.360 thing was there again. It had arrived about an hour earlier, 0:23:45.000 --> 0:23:48.920 and we all decided to have the normal even song 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:52.840 that we do have on those nights, because well, the 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:55.720 thing was out there outside the church anyway, and we 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:59.159 really wouldn't go away doing the service, and it didn't. 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:02.000 When he came out, very well was still up in 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:05.840 the sky, and so for another hour or two we watched, 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:11.080 and then suddenly it did go, and there was this 0:24:11.400 --> 0:24:18.959 amazingly incredible speed that they hollcraft disappeared to nothing across 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:24.440 the bay in that of the second or say, this 0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:26.640 was the end of the second night of the encounter, 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:28.879 and the one that seems to have had the most 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:32.800 impact on Father Gil. When you listen to him talk 0:24:32.840 --> 0:24:36.600 about these encounters. There is of course the amazement of 0:24:36.640 --> 0:24:39.679 seeing a craft like this descend from the skies and 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:43.359 hover in view. There is the appearance of four figures 0:24:44.000 --> 0:24:46.920 for one of a better description the crew of the craft. 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:50.800 But what seems to really stay with him is that he, 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:55.879 through his wave and their reply, communicated with things that, 0:24:56.000 --> 0:25:01.640 while they looked human, were most likely not another very 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:06.320 station there without any doubt a pour in my own 0:25:06.400 --> 0:25:10.120 mind in any case, but I saw it is one 0:25:10.160 --> 0:25:14.480 thing which I just coun't count wise pounds of mine. 0:25:15.200 --> 0:25:23.439 That's something June waves. It was a parent response the 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:27.560 way the way plisibly gay. The third night of the 0:25:27.680 --> 0:25:31.600 encounter was far less dramatic than the first two. In fact, 0:25:31.920 --> 0:25:35.479 in Crotewell's article in the Aprol Bulletin, the third night 0:25:35.600 --> 0:25:39.359 is reduced to a brief timeline starting with six pm, 0:25:39.560 --> 0:25:42.240 when apparently someone looked for a UFO in the sky 0:25:42.400 --> 0:25:47.240 without success. By six forty five one had appeared, though 0:25:47.280 --> 0:25:51.560 it was very high and almost directly overhead. By nine 0:25:51.880 --> 0:25:56.680 there were three arranged in a nearly straight line. At eleven, 0:25:57.160 --> 0:26:00.720 eight UFOs, the largest number seen at one time over 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:03.399 the course of the nights, were arrayed in the sky. 0:26:04.560 --> 0:26:07.400 One appeared to be fairly low, but there was no 0:26:07.440 --> 0:26:10.560 sign of activity on the deck. And that's the end 0:26:10.600 --> 0:26:13.439 of the report for the third and final night of 0:26:13.480 --> 0:26:19.240 this unusual encounter. In trying to explain what Gil and 0:26:19.320 --> 0:26:22.879 his companion saw over those three nights, there seems to 0:26:22.880 --> 0:26:26.040 me to be two different things going on. One is 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:29.080 the number of small objects, which are mostly referred to 0:26:29.119 --> 0:26:32.919 as lights. Alan Heinik, who was the best known UFO 0:26:33.040 --> 0:26:37.440 researcher at the time, looked into this encounter, including interviewing 0:26:37.480 --> 0:26:42.080 Gil and other witnesses. He concluded that these smaller objects 0:26:42.119 --> 0:26:47.600 were not entirely surprisingly misidentified bright stars and planets. This 0:26:47.680 --> 0:26:51.159 happens all the time, But Heineck didn't have an explanation 0:26:51.240 --> 0:26:55.600 for the larger object, and that, of course, is why 0:26:55.600 --> 0:26:59.359 this sighting is so interesting, the bigger craft with the 0:26:59.400 --> 0:27:03.480