Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: Aviation official Tom Drury films climbing object
At noon on August 23, 1953, Tom P. Drury, deputy director of the Civilian Aviation Department at Port Moresby, took 24 frames of 8mm color film of a silvery object that emerged from a cloud and climbed quickly, leaving a vapor trail.
Background
At 12:00 noon Tom P. Drury, deputy director of the Civilian Aviation Department at Port Moresby, took an unknown amount of 8mm color film of a silvery object that emerged from a cloud and climbed quickly, leaving a vapor trail. The Royal Australian Air Force and USAF intelligence are said to have studied the film, which has since disappeared; only a few third-generation stills of poor quality remain. Later researchers suspect a daytime meteor. Eberhart cites Australian newspapers from September 1953 and January 1954, NICAP, Bill Chalker's two-part study of the Drury film affair (2001), Keith Basterfield and Paul Dean's cold case review (2017) and Clark's encyclopedia. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.