Date: 02-09-93
  From: Phillip Hill
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I grew up in the jungles of Indonesia and became interested in some of the
articles I read about UFO's but really didn't get excited about it untill I
met a few native people that claims some pretty strange things.

Dolomai Mangoprau from a village called Ransiki in the province of Irian
Jaya, stated that he and 5 others were hunting when they saw 'the moon come
down' out of the sky and came to rest in a clearing just over the rise from
where they were.  They were afraid but went to check it out ever so
cautiously.  Even before they got to the site they saw this thing that looked
like a 'tin turtle' skimming over the ground picking up things as it went. 
The items it was taking were Kusu Tanah (small rodents like miniature Possum).
I asked how big this 'turtle' was and was told it was about 'chest high to a
grown man' which made it about 4.5 ft high.  He also said it was about a
meter in diameter.  I asked him how this 'turtle' was collecting these
creatures; what kind of arms it had and he said the 'turtle touched the
animal with a purple light then the animal flew off the ground by it's self
as the turtle moved over top of it'!  The more this man talked about it the
faster he talked until he was really excited and almost in tears.   This is
uncharacteristic for these people.  They hide their feelings as they beleive
it is not manly to show emotions and excitement in public.   

Now, Lasers are totally unheard of in this neck of the woods folks.  This is
a 'stone age' tribal village that had seen maybe less than 10 foreigners in
thier whole history and those foreigners were missionaries and an occasional
gov't official on a hunting expedition.   Literature about anything regarding
civilization period had never been introduced into this area let alone
literature about UFO's.   Seems this 'turtle' was some kind of drone/probe of
some kind collecting specimens for whatever reason.  I was told it even gave
chase on them at one point.  This was the last straw and they ran 'for their
lives' so they never got to see the 'moon that came down from the sky'.

I have never run across anyone over there that had claimed to have been
'taken' aboard any kind of strange craft or anything but have several other
stories that were told to me first hand by natives in the most remote areas
in that part of the world.   If interested I can post a few more for your
reading pleasure.

Phill