Papua New Guinea · 21 February 1979
Gusap area (Madang), 1979
ReportedA national parliament put airline radar tracks on the record and its defence minister promised a report, and nobody has since produced either the radar tapes or the report.
- Where
- Gusap area (Madang), Central and Western Provinces
- When
- 21 February 1979
- Who reported it
- Air Niugini radar operators (claimed); village populations across three provinces
- Entities described
- None reported
- Handled as
- ARCHIVE-ONLY
- Evidence class
- GOV-4
The record
An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.
UNKNOWN
No document is attached yet. The retrieval is open work.
What is not settled
Everything is at one remove: the parliamentary claim is known from a newspaper, the radar tracks are an MP's assertion about a state airline's equipment, and no PNG Defence report has surfaced. The Australian-era files that would hold comparable material end in 1973.
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