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ticularly
in
France
and
Brazil,
but
oc-
casionally
also in
the
United
States.
6.
Boiani,
New
Guinea,
June 26, 27,
1959.
Sightings
were
similar
on
both
evenings.
On
the
evening
of
the
27th,
Father
W.
B.
Gill,
a
teacher
and
mis-
sionary
of
the
Anglican
Church
in
New
Guinea,
came
out
of
the
dining
hall
at
6:45
p.m.,
looked
up
and
saw Venusand
then
the
large
sparkling
object.
While
he
watched,
some
39
othersjoined
him
(five
were
teachers,
two
were
medical
assistants,
the
rest
were
natives;
28
adult witnesses
signed
a
statement)
The
object
and
two
others
that
hovered
at
a
greater distance
are
shown
in
the
figure
(see
p.
15)
as
an
artist's
concep-
tion
(the
witnesses
had
no
cameras
but
made
pencil
sketches
during
the obser-vation).
As
the
UFO
hovered
nearby,
man
-shaped
forms
appeared
on
the
"top
deck" and
seemed
to
be
working
on
something.
Occasionally,
there
was
a
bright blue, thin
beam
of
light
which
projected
toward
the
sky.
The
object
itself
had
an
orangeish
cast,
and
the
"men"
appeared
to
be
dressed
in
silver
suits
of
some
kind.
The
most
seen
at
one
time
were
four.
When
one
of
the
figures
appeared
to
glance
over
the
crowd,
Gill
waved
his
arm,
and
the
figure
returned the
gesture. Gill
and
some
of
the
natives
then
raised
both
arms,
and
two
of
the
figures
on
the
object
did
the
same.
The
object
came
lower
but
did
not
land.
The
sighting
lasted
until
7:20
when
the blue
spot-
light
went
out
and
the
object
moved
into
a
cloud.
The
witnesses,
the time,
and
the
de-
tail
make
this
an
exceptionally
good
sighting,
one
of
the
best
on
record.
The
only
available
explanation other
than
the spaceship
one
would
seem
to
be
acomplex hoax
perpetrated
by
Gill
and
all
of
his
associates.
7.
Exeter,
New
Hampshire, Septem-
ber
3,
1965.
A
remarkable
sighting
occurred
rather recently in
New
Hamp-
shire
and
was
studied
and documented
by
several
UFO
investigators
but
par-
ticularly
by
Mr.
John
G.
Fuller,
a
columnist for the
Saturday
Review.
He
has assembled
his results
into
book
form
(Fuller,
1966),
and a
preliminary
account
was
published
in
Look Maga-
zine
(February 22, 1966).
The
sight-
ings
are
remarkable
not only because
of
their
nature but
in
a
very
real
sense
because
of
Mr.
Fuller's investigation.
The
basic sightings
occurred
in
the
early
morning
hours
(about
2:00
a.m.
Fig.
7.
The
terrain
of
the
Socorro,
New
Mexico,
sighting,
April
24,
1964.
Zamora
first
sighted
the
object
(at
position
X)
from
position
A,
interpreting
it
is
an
auto-
mobile.
He
parked
at
position
B.
The
square
indicates
the
dynamite
shack.
to
4:00
a.m.).
Patrolman
Eugene
Ber-
trand
of
Exeter
had
checked
on
a
parked
car
and
found
a
woman
who
told
him
that
a
huge
and
silent
air-
borne
object
had
trailed
her
from
the
town
of
Epping
9
miles
away.
The
object
had
brilliant
flashing
red
lights
and
kept
within
a
few
feet
of
her
car.
Developing
tremendous
speed,
it
had
disappeared
among
the
stars.
The
patrolman could not
believe
the story
and
had
not
even
taken
the
woman's
name.
When
Bertrand
checked
into
the
police
station,
Norman
Muscarello
had
just
arrived
and
told his story.
He
had
also
seen
a
large
dark
object
with
bril-
liantly
flashing
lights
hover
above a
field
through
which
he
had
been
walk-ing
on
his
way
home.
Patrolman
Ber-
trand
accompanied
him
back
to thescene.
Although
nothing
could
be
seen
at
first,
horses
on
a
nearby
farm and
dogs
in
nearby
houses
began
making
a
great
deal
of
noise,
and
then
Musca-
rello
screamed, "I
see
it,
I
see
it!"
Patrolman
Bertrand turned
and
ob-
served the
brilliant
roundish
object
moving
toward
them
like
a
leaf
flutter-
ing
from a
tree.
Its
red
lights
along
the
sides
were
so
brilliant
that
the en-
tire
area
was
bathed
in
light.
It
came
within
about
100
feet
of
the
two
wit-
nesses,
hovering with
a
rocking
motion,
absolutely
silent.
The
lights
seemed
to
be
dimming
or
pulsating
from
left
to
right
and
then
from
right
to
left,
taking
about
2
seconds
for
each
cycle.
The
lights
were so
brilliant
that
it
was
diffi-
cult
to
make
out
the
shape of
the object
itself.
It
darted,
turned
rapidly,
slowed
down,
and
performed
other
such
ma-
neuvers.
Patrolman
David
Hunt
had
heard
the
radio conversation
between
Bertrand
and
the
station
in
Exeter
and
drove
to
the
site,
witnessing
the
object
for
a
few
minutes
before
it
disappeared.
A
B-47
flew
over
shortly
after,
provid-
ing
an
extreme
contrast
to the
object
which
they
had
previously
witnessed.
In
Fuller's
study
of
the
case,
he
was
able to
find
some
60
different
people
who
had
witnessed
similar objects
over
a
period
of
several
days
or
weeks
in
the
fall
of 1965.
Muscarello
was
so
impressed
by
his
sighting that
he
and
his
mother
waited
on
a
mountainside
nearly
every evening
for
3
weeks
fol-
lowing
the
event.
On
one
of
these
evenings,
they
again
witnessed the
ob-
ject.
Other
people
in
the
area
would
park
by
high
tension
lines
(in
the
Exeter
sightings,
the
objects
were
fre-
quently
associated
with
power
lines)
and
watch
for
the
objects,
occasionally
being
rewarded
with the
sight
of
one.
This
sighting
is
not
only
a
good
one
because
of
the
detail,
the
number
of
witnesses,
and
the
several
occasions
in-
volving
comfortable
intervals
of
time,
but
it
adds
one
other
extremely
en-
couraging
note. If
Muscarello
and
other
New
Hampshire
residents
could
go
out
and
watch
for the
objects,
oc-
casionally
being
able to
see
them,
why
couldn't
properly
equipped
scientific
investigators
do
the
same?
Except
for
the
Fatima
incident,
none
of
the
other
sightings
have
had
much
element of
predictability.
This
may
be
simply
because
we
have
not taken
the
time
or
trouble to
really
look
for
it.
Yet,
it
is
not
uncommon
to
find
cases
in
which
an
object
seen
at
one
time
returned
on
a
later
occasion
(e.g.,
the
New
Guinea
instance).
Serious
scientific
investigation
of
the
phenomenon
might be
possible
if
it
were
desired
by
the
scientific
commu-
nity.
If
a
project
could
be
set
up
by
a
number
of
scientists,
it
might
be
fea-
sible
to
have
everything
in
readiness
for
another
wave
of
sightings
such
as
that at
Exeter
or
the
subsequent
one
in
the
Michigan
swamps.
When
such
a wave
appeared
(and
the
proper kind
of
publicity
might
help
in detecting
it—
although
it
could
also
contribute to the
generation
of
a wave
of
fraudulent
sightings!),
the
team
of
researchers
might converge immediately
upon
the
area
and
carry
out
some
sort
of
previ-
ously
planned
program
of
investigation.
If
the
investigators
themselves
were
too