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“Port Moresby”

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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 Drury Film: A Silver Dart over Port Moresby

August 23, 1953 · Port Moresby, Territory of Papua and New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

UAP · Cylinder · 17 sources · 1 photos

34Partially documented

Names4

Bill Chalker Person · 25 stories
An Australian UFO researcher who kept going back to old cases.
Department of Civil Aviation Organisation · 8 stories
Australia's civil aviation authority turns up again and again in the archive's sightings, usually as the office that checked the skies and found nothing there.
Woomera Place · 6 stories
Woomera is a rocket and guided weapons range in the South Australian outback, run by the Long Range Weapons Establishment.
Directorate of Air Force Intelligence Organisation · 3 stories
Inside the Royal Australian Air Force, the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence, or DAFI, kept the flying saucer files.

Documents6

State Department UAP Cable 001, Papua New Guinea, January 28, 1985 Official release

U.S. Department of State· 1985-01-24· 3 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 1 …85 PORT MORESBY 199 Date/DTG: Jan 28, 1985 / 280000Z Jan 85 From: AMEMBASSY PORT MORESBY Action: USCINCLANT ROUTINE E…
- p. 2 …PILOT WHO HAD JUST TAKEN OFF FROM WEWAK ENROUTE PORT MORESBY. PILOT SAID HIS RADAR PICKED UP AIRCRAFT FLYING SOUT…
Project Blue Book sighting list Document

NICAP· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …a688 23 North Atlantic (HO Bulletin) Unusua a689 23 Port Moresby, New Guinea a690 26 Bermuda a691 27 Falls Church…
The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF) Document

Air Force Historical Studies Office· 863 pages· 36 pages mention it
- p. 29 …JAPANESEINSTALLATIONS ON NORTHHEAD,KISKA,JULY1942 HEADQUARTERS,3 STH FIGHTERGROUP,PORT MORESBY,1942 HEADQUARTERS,3 gTH FIGHTERGROUP,PORT MORESBY,I942 KARACHIAIR…
- p. 508 …Navy assumed that the enemy would attempt a sea- borne invasion of the lower Solomons, or Port Moresby, or both…
Project Blue Book file: Trinidade Island, 16 Jan 1958 Document

USAF via The Black Vault· 54 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 42 …Famous 1953 movie taken in Port Moresby, New Guinea, unearthed and published by Australian investigators: shows right- angle maneuvers • •
NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files Document

NZDF / RNZAF via Internet Archive· 2010-12· 445 pages· 3 pages mention it
- p. 308 …Australian Civil Aviation Dept, while that gentleman was visiting Port Moresby New Guinea on August 31st 1953. This dept is…
- p. 319 …Frank stated that the Air Force Project Bluebook personnel have recently received the movie film taken at Port Moresby New…
The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Nicap) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2001-03-12· 186 pages· 5 pages mention it
- p. 113 …31, 1953; Port Moresby, New Guinea, movie film of UFO taken by aviation official. May 24, 1954; nr Dayton, Ohio…
- p. 136 …procedures for reporting UFOs, restrictions on public discussion by Air Force personnel. (IX) August 31, 1953--Port Moresby, New Guinea…