PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Father Gill’s UFO Sighting
Papua or bust … the Boianai UFO sightings
This article originally appeared in the journal of ASOPA (Australian School of Pacific
Administration): PNG Attitude in September 2011.
BY PETER KRANZ
I DON'T KNOW what you think of unidentified flying objects –
UFOs - but in 1959, Papua was the location of one of the best
observed and witnessed UFO encounters on record.
The veracity of Father Gill's testimony has never been questioned and to this day the Boianai
sightings are one of the strangest episodes in the annals of UFOlogy.
On 5 April 1959 , at the Anglican mission village at Boianai, Papua, one of the most well-
documented cases of alien visitation began. The Anglican Church had sent Father William
Booth Gill to lead the mission. He would be the main subject of an amazing series of UFO
sightings with alien beings.
During the summer of 1959, Gill's assistant Stephen Moi reported to him that he had
observed an "inverted saucer-shaped object" which was hovering above the mission. Gill
thought nothing of it at the time.