Report from Jenny, of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: the octagonal building and the Turkish earthquake

What was reported

Jenny, an army wife newly arrived in Rhodesia, writes from Bulawayo about a recurring 'travelling dream' in which a silent man in white takes her hand and shows her the family's next posting, which her mocking husband came to respect. One September night in 1973 or 1974 he flew her low over a grey, choppy sea to an octagonal building with large windows standing on the water. Inside, young men and women in blue overall-like suits sat at consoles beneath screens showing the Earth as if from satellites. A blonde woman of about thirty, also in blue, explained they were watching the planet and pointed to a man monitoring an earthquake about to strike Turkey; Jenny sensed kindly but firm manipulation 'in our own interests' and help with over-population. She woke with her faith shaken, suffered stabbing headaches whenever she tried to describe it, and the Turkish earthquake then happened.

What Hind made of it

Hind prints the letter without comment among the abduction reports, noting only that its writers were unaware of Hopkins' work and that the cases are treated in confidence; Jenny herself calls it a 'psychic' experience and a dream.

Explanation offered
a vivid dream, as Jenny herself frames it, with a psychic rather than physical character

In their words

• he never said a word, ever

• I felt rather scared and a little horrified, but they seemed to understand my feelings

• my belief in God was very much shaken

Cross references

• 01-09-1 (the second dream a year later)
• Abductees in Southern Africa introduction, spread 8

Connected

• Report from Jenny, of Bulawayo: the waterspout, the boat off Florida and the Ones in BlueCase fileSame witness

  Jenny's two September 'travelling dreams' a year apart (1973/74 and 1974/75) with the same silent guide in white and the same blonde woman in blue; both bring stabbing headaches when she tries to tell them. Printed together under Abductees in Southern Africa; one witness, so not two independent reports.

• Janet of BulawayoCase fileSame behaviour

  Both are Bulawayo women who describe 'travelling' or astral dreams that later match real places, crews in one-piece uniforms (blue overalls at consoles under screens; white-silver suits at instrument tables), and both call themselves psychic. Hind printed both among abductees and notes neither had read Hopkins. Independent witnesses, a decade apart.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 1 (July 1988), spread 8-9

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