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3D model Narrated

“Boianai”

Stories3

Pro early

Papua New Guinea Overflights: Air Niugini Radar Contact and Wewak Witnesses (1985)

January 24, 1985 · Wewak and Angoram, East Sepik Province

Papua New Guinea

UAP · Unknown · 13 sources

39Partially documented

The Father Gill Sightings at Boianai

June 26, 1959 · Boianai Anglican Mission, Goodenough Bay, Territory of Papua (now Milne Bay Province)

Papua New Guinea

UAP · Being / humanoid · 24 sources

32Partially documented

Pro early

The Nawaca Fishermen Encounter (Nabouwalu, Fiji)

October 8, 1957 · Coastal waters between Nabouwalu and Nawaca, Bua Province, Vanua Levu

Fiji

UAP · Disc / saucer · 11 sources

19Thinly documented

Names5

Boianai Place · 3 stories
An Anglican mission on Goodenough Bay, in the Territory of Papua.
Donald Menzel Person · 22 stories
Harvard astronomer Donald H.
RAAF Organisation · 21 stories
The Royal Australian Air Force runs through decades of the archive's Australian cases.
Steuart Campbell Person · 13 stories
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
Martin Kottmeyer Person · 4 stories
Martin Kottmeyer is a sceptical writer who looks for ordinary sources behind famous encounters.

Documents4

Project Blue Book file: Trinidade Island, 16 Jan 1958 Document

USAF via The Black Vault· 54 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 15 …activities in the Boianai area of Ne w Guinea, and copics of his find· ings have been submitted to proper…
UFOs and Related Subjects (Lynn Catoe, 1969) Document

Government Attic· 419 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 199 …Details and an:ilysis of sighting on June 26-27, 1959, at Boianai Mission~ Papua, of UFO apparently manned by…
James E. McDonald statement, Symposium on UFOs, House Committee on Science and Astronautics Document

Princeton (kirkmcd archive)· 1968-07-29· 55 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 22 …A now-famous group of sightings of June 26/27, 1959, near Boianai, New Guinea, was observed by several dozen…
Symposium on unidentified flying objects: hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, second session, July 29, 1968. Hearing transcript

U.S. House of Representatives· 1968-07-29· 256 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 59 …A now -famous group of sightings of June 26/27, 1959, near Boianai, New Guinea, was observed by several dozen…