Caroline of Zimbabwe

What was reported

Lying awake after midnight on 1 April 1988 at her home south of Chipinge, Caroline felt the night go unnaturally silent, the crickets and her loud bedside clock falling quiet. A ball of white light shot through the ceiling and hung between bed and dressing table while she lay paralysed except for her head. Following a shaft of light up through the ceiling corner she saw a small mustard-brown saucer with golden-lit windows hovering above tall trees in a strangely bright blue sky, and felt it wanted to draw her up the beam. It ended abruptly, leaving her drained; a slow modulating whirr circled outside, the house lights failed briefly as she ran for her mother, and the sound stopped when they came back on at about 03.35. Between 05.00 and 05.15 the family saw a lamp dim; Caroline and a sister felt weightless, another sister's speech sounded slurred and distant, and the two heard the whirring stop again.

What Hind made of it

Hind adds that Caroline wears glasses but not during the first incident, is unsure when it began, has no earlier experiences, has read no UAP books and never imagined UAPs could pass through walls; she records the sister's remark about Caroline's glowing eyes without drawing a conclusion.

In their words

• Everything was silent, even the crickets had stopped their chirping.

• I felt as though, whoever it was, wanted to take me up in this beam of light.

• large and sort of glowing.

Cross references

• Room diagram with witness positions 1-3 and features A-C, spread 19

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 1 (July 1988), spread 16-19