Indava of Papua New Guinea 

In late 2006, Paul Nation arrived in a remote mountainous area on the mainland of Papua New Guinea. He had previously searched for ropens on Umboi Island (another part of Papua New Guinea) without getting a view of any pterosaur-like creature. The indava seen near Tawa Village is said to be a large flying creature that glows, so it was thought to be similar to, if not the same as, the ropen of Umboi.

 

Over several nights, Paul saw more flying lights than the total that all previous ropen seekers had seen. Near Tawa Village, he videotaped two lights that slowly turned on and off, on the top of a ridge. In 2007, the video footage was analyzed by a missile defense physicist (Cliff Paiva), who announced that the lights were not from common possibilities: They were not made by lanterns, airplanes, meteors, fire, or car headlights. And it was  no hoax.

 

Also on the late-2006 expedition, Jacob Kepas (a native of Papua New Guinea who accompanied Paul), in daylight, with a local man, climbed up a large hill; they saw a large creature sleeping on a cliff: apparently an indava.