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The “trans-timeline-traveler” hypothesis for UFOs
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\u201cIf time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?\u201d \u2014Stephen Hawking<\/em><\/p>\n

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In 1959, at an Anglican mission in the village of Boianai, on the north coast of the mountainous southeastern prong of New Guinea, there occurred one of the best-known examples of what the UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek would later call a \u201cClose Encounter of the Third Kind.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case involved a series of UFO sightings\u2014by mission staff and other locals\u2014of odd lights in the sky and saucer-shaped crafts, over a period of several weeks, culminating in a close encounter in late June. The mission head, William Gill, a 31-year-old Australian named William Gill, had more or less dismissed some of the earlier sightings in a letter<\/a> written June 26 to a senior colleague based elsewhere in PNG:<\/p>\n

I am inclined to believe that probably many UFOs are more likely some form of electric phenomena\u2014or perhaps something brought about by the atom bomb explosions etc.<\/p>\n

Having signed himself \u201cDoubting William,\u201d Gill later that day became a UFO believer, as he explained in a follow-up letter to the same colleague on June 27:<\/p>\n

Life is strange, isn\u2019t it? Yesterday I wrote you a letter, expressing opinions re the UFOs. Now, less than 24 hours later I have changed my views somewhat.<\/p>\n

Last night we at Boianai experienced about 4 hours of UFO activity, and there is no doubt whatsoever that they are handled by beings of some kind. At times it was absolutely breathtaking.<\/p>\n

What Gill and his staff and parishioners saw (and more than three dozen later signed a statement affirming the truth of Gill\u2019s account) was a saucer-shaped craft that approached the village closely, and came as low as 100 meters from the ground. It had a deck on top, from which four different beings, human in appearance, observed the people on the ground.<\/p>\n

One figure seemed to be standing looking down at us (a group of about a dozen). I stretched my arm above my head and waved. To our surprise the figure did the same. Ananias waved both arms over his head then the two outside figures did the same.<\/p>\n

Ananias and myself began waving our arms and all four now seemed to wave back. There seemed to be no doubt that our movements were answered. All mission boys made audible gasps (of either joy or surprise, perhaps both).<\/p>\n

As dark was beginning to close in, I sent Eric Kodawara for a torch and directed a series of long dashes towards the UFO. After a minute or two of this, the UFO apparently acknowledged by making several wavering motions back and forth.<\/p>\n

Waving by us was repeated and this followed by more flashes of torch, then the UFO began slowly to become bigger, apparently coming in our direction. It ceased after perhaps half a minute and came no further.<\/p>\n

After a further two or three minutes the figures apparently lost interest in us for they disappeared \u2018below deck.\u2019 At 6.25 pm two figures re-appeared to carry on with whatever they were doing [seemingly setting up equipment on the deck] before the interruption. The blue spotlight [emitted upward at a 45-degree angle from the top of the craft] came on for a few seconds twice in succession.<\/p>\n

The craft was accompanied by others in the sky nearby, but none landed, and eventually the sightings\u2014often obscured by cloud cover\u2014petered out, more or less coincident with a series of mysterious, loud explosions in the sky.<\/p>\n

Gill later commented that the saucer-like object he had seen at close range \u201clooked a perfectly normal sort of object, an earth-made object. I realised, of course, that some people might think of this as a flying saucer, but I took it to be some kind of hovercraft the Americans or even the Australians had built. The figures inside looked perfectly human<\/em>.\u201d [italics mine]<\/p>\n