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“Afterwards, when we came home we told my mother and one of our two friends, one of whom was a ‘top dog' in the Ministry of Defence, about our sightings but, afraid of being labeled ‘mad,' we have kept this experience to ourselves…. Our MoD friend said that there's a military base near to Purbeck, and it was probable that experiments being conducted there would be the explanation. We accepted this—and who were we to argue?”
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Leviathans of the skies continue to be reported around the world. With the inexorable and exponential advances in alien-derived technology, it is more than likely that quite a number of these vehicles are manufactured on Earth. Yet it is hard to reconcile the majority of reports with such an assumption….

Exploitation

M
arius Boirayon, a former Royal Australian Air Force engineer, had
recently returned with his wife Miriam from the New Georgia group, part of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean, where they had acquired a beautiful island. Since they required new rental accommodation on Guadalcanal, Marius sought the assistance of his native friend Joseph, who selected a three-bedroom timber property at Cape Esperance. Marius thus became the first white man to live in that area.

No dates are given for the following incidents, possibly owing to the natives' reluctance to discuss their many disturbing incidents with outsiders. All we are told in this narrative by Marius—which he wrote in 2003—is that his later investigations in the Islands took place in 1996, 1997, and 2002.

“That night,” Marius reports, “I started up the generator and sat back with Joseph and a few new friends to relax and have a beer. Later that night, when I was finding out a little bit more about the area, Joseph told me that I had to watch out for the ‘Dragon Snake.' … They told me that it comes out of the mountains at night and flies around, [and,] with its piercing red eyes, has been feared for generations. It was responsible for people going missing and for killing people.”

A few days later, Marius was fishing with another friend, Ci-Ci, when
Joseph—who had been spearfishing—suddenly shouted for his friends' attention, pointing down to the beach. “There! There!” he cried. “The Dragon Snake!”

“As I looked down the beach,” Marius continued, “I couldn't believe what I was seeing. About a kilometer away, there was a very bright, luminous white object flying slowly over the water. I remember asking myself whether I was really seeing it. I called out for my wife Miriam to bring my binoculars.

“After focusing in on the star-like, brilliantly lit object, I noticed that it was about sixty feet around and seemed to make no noise. We watched it for a couple of minutes until it submerged itself into the sea. Joseph told me to wait about ten minutes and I'd see it come back out again, which it did! When it came back out of the water, it was glowing twice as brightly as when it went in. We continued to watch it with my binoculars as it returned to the coast in the direction whence it had come, until it disappeared out of sight over the top of the coconut trees.

“Somewhat startled by this experience, we went back into the house and sat talking about this ‘Dragon Snake' until the early hours of the morning. They told me that if you didn't see it one night, you were quite likely to see it the next. They were right. In fact, over a seven-month period, I lost count of these sightings when they reached the sixty mark. So while we sat talking about this object, I explained the structure of the universe to Joseph and Ci-Ci. I showed them my copy of a Time-Life book,
The Universe
, with its space-type pictures, and said that these so-called ‘Dragon Snakes' were what white men call ‘Unidentified Flying Objects.' They were absolutely amazed, as they had spent their whole life fearing this thing with superstition and having no real understanding of it. Yet, for that matter, I was also a little fearful.

“This sighting was the first of well over sixty more to follow, during which time I investigated the UFO waterfall lake base of northwest Guadalcanal and later the UFO bases of the central east coast of Malaita and central Small Malaita [also known as South Malaita or Maramasike]. This first sighting, though, had completely changed my mind about the existence of extraterrestrials, and a little investigation revealed that this so-called Dragon Snake had been in the area for well over a century. I
realistically began thinking in terms of extraterrestrials inhabiting our planet.”

A Serious Threat

Extensive investigations by Marius revealed that the aliens had displayed contemptible behavior toward the natives of Guadalcanal and Malaita. “Indeed,” he adds, “there have been several outright abductions and murders. For example, the grandfather of a good friend of mine was incinerated by one of these UFOs around the early 1900s. Several independent sources have verified this. Countless horrific stories can be heard throughout these islands.”

One theory that Marius came up with was that these craft—which I classify as “unidentified submergible objects” (USOs)—seemed to display an interest in the numerous wrecked Allied naval ships, such as the HMAS
Canberra
and USS
Chicago
, destroyed by the Japanese Navy in World War II during the huge naval battles around Guadalcanal in late 1942 and early 1943. “Why the UFOs had so much of an interest in these old warships became a somewhat baffling problem for me at the time,” he says.

Determined to learn more, Marius approached two tribal chiefs for further information about the Dragon Snake. “My suspicions were right: the chiefs knew a lot about it. One of the chief's brothers had been killed by it when he was only a little boy. They told me several stories of deaths and abductions, all of which confirmed to me that these UFOs are definitely not friendly. They may be friendly in other places in the world, but certainly not here.”

The tribal chiefs pointed Marius in the direction of the Dragon Snake's “house,” which they said lay in an unnamed mountain, which for convenience Marius named “Mount Dragon,” part of the mountain range which includes Mt. Poporia, about eight kilometers inland. “They told me of a big waterfall high up in the mountain with a lake beneath, into which the water falls … inside that lake is where the Dragon Snake lives. A further study of Mount Dragon revealed that there is a small lake in the mountain that is the beginning of a river…. What was at the bottom of this waterfall lake, and how many UFOs were there? I had to stop speculating
on answers to these questions, as all of this was starting to sound a lot like a science-fiction movie….”

One morning shortly afterward, Joseph informed Marius that a fisherman he knew had been taken to hospital with burns to most of his body sustained from a UFO two nights previously. The two visited the injured man. “He was covered in bandages from head to toe,” said Marius, “and was in a great deal of pain, but doped up with pethidine. Joseph began to speak to him in the Guadalcanal language to try and find out exactly what had happened to him….

“He had been out fishing in his fiberglass boat at about 3:00
a.m
. when he saw the Dragon Snake flying along [and] started flashing his torch at it. That was when it flew over to him in an instant and hovered overhead. Panicking, he started the motor and took off to get away from the Dragon Snake, but it followed him as he ‘zigzagged' his way back to shore. It was during this short pursuit to the beach that it fired some form of light at him, but it only partially hit him. A later inspection of his nineteen-foot boat showed traces of scorching upon some of the boat's interior paint.

“He said that when he drove his boat up the beach and ran into the bush, the Dragon Snake followed him to where he was hiding behind a tree and hovered above. When he moved around to the other side of the tree, it also went around to the other side. It was then that he literally got down on his knees and prayed to God with his hands clasped in front of him. With that, the Dragon Snake moved on. After that, he stumbled his way back to his village and was taken to hospital.

“It was an incredible story, but true,” Marius stresses. “He definitely had no reason to be lying. These kinds of UFO encounters have happened on numerous occasions over the past century but, strangely enough, the Solomons being the way they are, reports have not been taken seriously.”

In discussions about these aliens with his father-in-law John, Marius explained how some white men believe they are about four feet tall with a large head, big eyes, four fingers, and so on. John said there was a book in the Solomon Islands Cultural Museum with pictures describing just this sort of being. They decided to visit the museum.

“There it was,” said Marius. “This fifteen-page book had fourteen
detailed hand-drawn sketches of aliens just like the ones we are all used to seeing on television. An islander had compiled this short collection of drawings for the museum from different eyewitness accounts…. What I wanted to know was, how could the Solomon Islanders know anything about these kinds of aliens, when 99.99 percent of them had never had any significant type of exposure to white man's media? Most of the old tribal people still thought that the stars were caused by pinpricks in the sky and that the Earth was flat….”

Further Experiences

Marius pondered on the possible consequences of pursuing the matter any further. “I had initially gone out to the Solomons to enjoy an early, youthful retirement and certainly had not expected to be chasing UFOs,” he explains. “But as a former military man, I couldn't stop thinking about the fact that this UFO was continually going near ships that had been involved in a great battle where thousands of men had lost their lives in the cause of freedom. It seemed as if this UFO was robbing graves. This weighed heavily on my mind for weeks.”

One night while fishing, Marius watched the UFO submerge near the wreck of the USS
Chicago
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and then resurface, shining more brightly. As he peered through his binoculars, he noticed a ship heading in his direction. “From the trigonometric perspective, the UFO couldn't see the ship because of the point that was shielding its view,” he assumed. “However, I had both the UFO and the ship in my field of view. After about thirty seconds, when the UFO did see the ship it instantly vanished … as if it had turned off its lights. I took my binoculars from my eyes. I was not sure if the craft had instantly accelerated or had somehow cloaked itself. Yet it seemed that the UFO didn't mind the indigenous people seeing it, but it did mind when someone saw it who would possibly know of its real identity.”

Marius and Joseph planned an expedition to Mount Dragon, having worked out that the “Dragon Snake” most likely would travel to and from its base via a five-kilometer-long valley that runs in a northward direction past Mt. Dragon. “After searching the area for a suitable position,” Marius reports, “we chose an accessible eight-hundred-foot mountain that had all
the requirements we needed.”

The following day, the men gathered all the equipment they needed, including Marius's 30-shot 7.62mm gun and a shotgun, in the event of an attack by wild pigs. “We knew that the UFO had the habit of appearing at around 10:00
p.m
. or 3:00
a.m
.” After parking their car in the bush, they climbed to the top of the mountain with the aid of torchlights. This gave them a commanding 270-degree view. “With a clear view of the sea to the left of us and the valley's entrance to the right, there was no way that we were going to miss seeing the UFO when it made its appearance—and we didn't.

“Having sat up half the night, watching and waiting and having a few beers to pass the time, at 2:35
a.m
. we saw the first glimmer of the UFO's light leaving the valley's entrance. There was an air of excitement…. While training my binoculars on the UFO, I noticed that it was traveling toward our direction at a fair rate of speed, which we estimated later to be about a hundred knots. We had been watching it approach us for close on a minute when it came past at an estimated height of three hundred feet, half a kilometer away. No sooner had this UFO passed by than it took an instantaneous 45-degree turn to the left and then accelerated away at phenomenal speed … and we watched the UFO's light diminishing over the horizon within seconds while still traveling at near sea level.”

Marius determined to make an expedition up the valley sometime to film the UFO. But he only had a Kodak Instamatic which was of no use at night, and video cameras were neither cheap to buy nor available to borrow from anyone he knew. Weeks went by. And the craft continued to appear regularly.

“One morning at 3:00
a.m.
a couple of weeks later,” Marius reports, “Joseph and I were on the grass outside the house, husking coconuts around a fire, when we noticed the UFO. We observed that it was slowly moving in our direction. It started to get closer and closer, and it seemed to us that if it continued on the path it was on, it would overfly us.

“As it came progressively even closer, we started to move to the door of the house. Both Joseph and I were standing at the door when it flew over the nearby trees and over the top of the house. The brilliance of its white light radiated the whole area as if we were standing amidst the light of a
dozen arc welders at once. This was the first time that I could clearly see the vehicle's sphere [shape] with my naked eye. It made no noise as it eerily passed over us. In fact, at the time we made audible comments to each other about what was happening. After it went by, we both ran out to see it disappearing over the trees further on. Joseph had experienced this sort of thing before—but I hadn't.”

Marius became partly overcome by a feeling of helplessness and inadequacy around that time, due to his constantly “questioning the reality of it all.”

Malaita Bases

In 1996, 1997, and 2002, Marius made further research trips to the island of Malaita, which is separated from Guadalcanal by the Indispensable Strait. According to members of his wife's family, NASA first made contact with the occupants of a subterranean alien base in central east Malaita in 1961. “This is how they began to gain what partial technology they have today,” he claims. “It was through blackmail. This happened because when the great [British] geologist Mr. Gropher was doing his few expeditions in the area in between 1958 and 1960, he saw these UFOs, then reported back to the U.K. (the ruling colonial power at the time) about them.

“Apparently, in 1961, a white man who claimed to be from NASA came to that part of the island and asked for assistance from my wife's relatives to take him to the UFO subterranean base entrances, which they did. I am the only white man ever to have married a woman from the Kwaio, who live in that area. This NASA guy was gone a week and then returned, asking my wife's relatives for further assistance to take him back to these places.