HISTORICAL

Father Gill UFO sighting — Anglican missionary William Gill and 37 villagers in Boianai watched a large disc with humanoid figures moving on top. The witnesses waved at the figures, and the figures appeared to wave back.

On the nights of June 26 and 27, 1959, an Anglican mission priest, two of his fellow missionaries, and 25 local Papua New Guineans at Boianai mission station independently observed disc-shaped craft with humanoid figures on top, waving in response to the witnesses' own waved greetings. The Father Gill sighting is among the most extensively documented multi-witness daylight encounters in UFO history. 【Background】 Father William Booth Gill was a senior Anglican missionary stationed at Boianai on the north coast of New Guinea (then Australian-administered Papua), with a congregation of about 200 local villagers. He was a methodical, well-educated observer with a science degree, and he kept detailed daily mission journals. 【The Encounter】 At about 6:45 p.m. on June 26, Gill and 37 named witnesses observed a large luminous disc with four humanoid figures visible on its upper deck, approximately 100 metres above the bay. The figures appeared to be working at controls and emitted blue beams of light into the sky. On the following evening, the craft returned and the figures waved at Gill's group; Gill, his medical assistant Stephen Moi, and several villagers waved back, and the figures reciprocated. Gill produced a contemporary, signed, dated, and witnessed report listing all 38 observers. 【Investigation】 The Royal Australian Air Force formally investigated and concluded that Gill's report was probably "the planet Venus mis-seen due to atmospheric distortion." Gill rejected the conclusion, noting that Venus was simultaneously visible in a different part of the sky and that the witnesses had reciprocally waved at the figures. The case was reanalysed in detail by Dr. J. Allen Hynek for the University of Colorado UFO Project and by APRO (the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization). 【Modern Assessment】 The case is exceptional for the number of independent witnesses, the multi-night repetition, the meticulous primary documentation, and the interaction (waved greetings) between the figures and observers. Skeptical analyses by Donald Menzel and others have proposed atmospheric optical effects, but cannot account for the witness count or the reported reciprocal behaviour. Father Gill maintained his account until his death in 2007. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Gill_UFO_sighting

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Source: Wikipedia