Family sights object – Port Moresby – 1962

Continuing my series of posts drawn from material audio recorded by the late Professor James E McDonald, during his visit to Australia in 1967. This post describes details of McDonald’s interview with a Mrs I Naughton; her son Kenneth, and daughter Serena, about their observation of an unusual object ‘a little before dusk’ on an evening in late February 1962 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The whole experience is said to have lasted for several minutes.

Port Moresby 1962

Image courtesy of Google maps

At the time

of this interview, the Naughtons’ were living at 15 Grandview Street, Pymble,

Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia.  The interview was conducted by telephone, with

breaks when Mrs Naughton consulted with her husband over various aspects of the

sighting.

The date of

the sighting was first believed to be February/March 1962, then Mrs Naughton

decided it was late February 1962.  The

family were living in the Ela Beach area of Port Moresby, the capital city of Papua New Guinea.  They lived in a house on

a cliff overlooking the bay.  She was

standing on the front balcony of the house, facing the water.  Her husband was inside and only saw the end of

the sighting.  At the time of the

sightings her son, Kenneth, was aged 10, and daughter, Serena, aged 7, they were

both nearby at the time of the sighting.

Mrs

Naughton, saw a rowing boat, stationary in the water below the house, with two ‘men’,

sitting down in the boat.  She watched

this boat for five minutes.  Then she

looked at the top of a nearby mountain, where there was a red anti-aircraft

collision beacon.  She saw, ‘This thing,’

come around the mountain.  It was round

and appeared to be a grey/steel colour.  It

travelled over the bay in front of her, then turned to the left of her; turned

again and hovered over the rowing boat.  It

stayed there for, ‘A couple of minutes,’ then departed.  Her son was jumping up and down.  Her daughter called Mr Naughton to come and

look at it.

The object signals

While the

object had been over the boat, ‘Signalling,’ began.  A white light came down from the object and

shone on the boat.  A fainter light shone

from the boat towards the object.  The

light on the object flashed on and off.  The

light from the boat, shone upwards, like a torch.  She thought the signalling appeared, ‘Contrived.’

The object

had a red light around its rim.  Asked

about its shape, she replied, ‘That it was like a dinner plate.’  It was saucer like, flat on the bottom and

rounded on the top.  She thought there

was a little dome on the top, but said her son and daughter didn’t see this.  Around the rim of the base were a series of

individual red lights.  She had the impression

this was due to red light shining out of portholes in the object.  These red lights were not rotating or

blinking.  The signalling white light

came from the right-hand side rim, near the bottom.  The shape of the object was symmetrical around

its central axis.  It was distinct in

outline and therefore, not blurred.

After

further questioning, by McDonald, she stated that she had not seen the

underneath of the object as it had hovered level with their cliff top house.  She estimated the house was 30 metres above

the water.

The light

flashing from the object seemed to be in a pattern, of 1-2-3-4 down, and then a

light from the boat below signalled the same sequence.  There were then other sequences of flashing

lights passing between object and the boat.  She was unable to estimate the duration of

this signalling.

The figures

in the boat were sitting down.  The ‘man’

in the front was doing the signalling to the object, using a torch.

Image courtesy Google maps

Another sighting

At this

point Mrs Naughton made a reference to another sighting, by a man named Allan

Davis.  The day after the Naughtons’

sighting, she heard from Mr Davis, a neighbour of theirs who had a nearby flat,

that in 1957, over the same bay, Davis sighted a ‘Flying saucer.’  He said that at 2 am one morning, in bright

moonlight, he had seen an unusual object, signalling.  Davis worked for the Australian Department of

Civil Aviation.

McDonald

asked Mrs Naughton if in 1962, there had been talk of Indonesian espionage in

the area?  She said there had not.

McDonald

mentioned the 1959 Reverend Gill sighting, and Mrs Naughton stated that she had

read about it in the papers, and that she was aware that Gill had an excellent

reputation.  She had never met him.

McDonald

asked what Mrs Naughton thought the family had seen that evening in 1962?  She said she thought it was a, ‘Scout ship,’ that

had been around since biblical times and watching our development; perhaps

later to contact us when we had space travel.  She had come to this conclusion since 1962.

McDonald

then spoke to Serena, then aged 12.

Serena’s account was that there had been a, ‘Flying saucer,’ near the

house, and a boat in the water, they were signalling to each other.  The object had been white, with five to six lights

around its rim.  In shape, it looked like

two saucers stuck together.  She did not

see the dome her mother thought she had seen.

The object finally turned around and quickly moved off.

McDonald spoke

to Kenneth, then aged 15 years.  Kenneth

said he saw the object come around the hill into the bay from his right.  It was long and slender in shape.  It was a shiny colour, silver and not very

shiny.  It had lights around its rim,

which appeared to be reddish.  He saw an

exchange of light flashes between object and boat.  The object finally left, after hovering.  It went upwards and was lost from view, very

quickly.

McDonald

returned to speaking with Mrs Naughton and asked her about the diameter of the

object.  After much discussion she settled

on a diameter of half a metre at three metres distance.  She said that at no time was there any noise

associated with the object and there had been no flames during its departure.  She had seen nothing like it since.

Source Unidentified Aerial Phenomena – scientific research