Somebody asked about the William Gill UFO case at Quora and got some interesting responses. The best are the ones at the top of the thread, from Kaiser Tarafdar and Donald Soryu.
The Gill & Co "close encounter" with a UFO took place at New Guinea in 1959 and is still considered one of the classical UFO observations. It´s also one of my favorites.
It *is* hard to explain away, although the skeptics sure tried! Myopia, the planet Venus and a fisherboat are some of the proposals. Or was it Jupiter, Saturn *and* Venus that had been mistaken for a *flying saucer shaped craft with four humanoids on board, waving in response to the observers below*.
I´m pretty near-sighted myself, but I *think* I could tell the difference...
Perhaps Gill, a High Church Anglican, was secretely the leader of a cargo cult worshipping a triadic planetary deity? Either that, or our laws of physics are all wrong and Velikovsky was right. Pick one!
ReplyDeleteWhat is the Church of England doing on New Guinea? Why should Papuans and Melanesians convert to an Anglo-Saxon version of a mutated Jewish sect? I mean, please...
ReplyDeleteI´m sure the Babylonian captivity of the Jews is super-relevant to Papuans...
ReplyDeleteDid the UFO bring cargo?
ReplyDeleteI´m sure veneration of Charles I and William Laud is a very relevant thing on New Guinea...
ReplyDeleteBut sure, the Papuans had been killing and eating each other for 40,000 years before the White Man arrived and established peace, so I suppose los blancos did *something* useful on that Jehovah-forsaken island.
ReplyDeleteWhat a pity colonialism wasn´t as benign in the *rest* of the world...
Is the socialist revolution on the agenda in New Guinea? Or just the Neolithic revolution? Can Bordiga or Posadas please comment on this?
ReplyDeleteOnly UFOs can create the material conditions for socialism in Papua New Guinea!
ReplyDeleteOnly the Posadist Fourth International can establish a section on New Guinea, only Posadas understood the need for UFOs and aliens in building of global socialism!
ReplyDeleteWhat do Maoists demand on New Guinea? A protracted people´s war with spears, combined with collective ownership of the paradise birds?
ReplyDeleteVIVA POSADAS
ReplyDeleteFor a workers´ and farmers´ government on New Guinea...no, wait, that can´t be right...for a progressive Neolithic front of hunters, gatherers and horticulturalists, for workers´ control of the cargo, establish contact with UFO aliens, true spirits of Denisovan ancestors!
ReplyDeleteYes, I´m being ironic, LOL.
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