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nights." Danish officials were allowed to participate in the interrogation of Hans and Stig when they declared that Denmark's files contained a similar harrowing experience that had been endured by a Danish lady. Neither young man had believed in "wild stories about flying saucers" before they stopped to investigate that mysterious light in the clearing. Neither of them will ever doubt such tales again. 9. The Clergyman Who Waved Hello The Reverend William Booth Gill, who has been the staff of the Anglican Mission in Papua, New Guinea for 13 years, had always considered reports of UFO's to be simply "figments of the imagination or some electrical phenomenon." However, in June of 1959, the clergyman filed a report consisting of eight closely typed pages, which told of lengthy saucer sightings that had occurred near his mission on the 21st, 26th, 27th, and 28th of that month. Father Gill was quoted in the Sydney Sun-Herald as saying that he and 37 other witnesses watched UFO's for four hours on the evening of the 26th just after sunset. "Four figures appeared on top of the large object, which seemed to be a mother ship. The figures looked as though they were doing something on the top deck. One figure seemed to be standing, looking down at us. | stretched my hand above my head and waved. To our surprise, the figure did the same." The strange vehicle with the friendly aliens dropped down to an altitude of "maybe 450 feet, perhaps less, maybe 300 feet." Father Gill noted that a shaft of blue light emanated from the center of the deck of the UFO and would switch on and off every few seconds. According to the clergyman, "the craft looked like a disc with a smaller round super-structure, then again on top of that another kind of superstructure - round rather like the bridge of a boat. Underneath it had four legs in pairs pointing downward diagonally. These appeared to be fixed, Dot retractable, and looked the same on successive