Southern Africa Unexplained

Case 2 (further report); Case 3 in Unusual Shapes and Sizes · UFO Afrinews No 2, June 1989

Further Report on 'Rocket' over Cape Town

1980 · Cape Town, South Africa

What was reported

Follow-up to the Cape Town 'rocket' of November 1980 from UFO Afrinews 1 (p 23). J S responded and clarified details. A 1988 regression with a leading Cape hypnotist failed because the man was an open sceptic; a second hypnotist will try in June 1989, chiefly to recover the lettering and numbers on the missile-like object. J S insists it was not an experimental plane: it flew low, sealed, without wings, windows or doors, and moved so mechanically that he believes it was remotely controlled. Unlike the Afrinews 1 drawing, the nose cone was not dark and was sharp rather than curved, the body white not silver, and the rear a straight line hidden by a vee-shaped flame three to four times the body's length. Illustration 3 shows an American flag, 'USA' and a two-letter, four-digit code.

What Hind made of it

Hind regards J S's account as a factual report of something unidentified; if it is an experimental USA craft the lettering may identify it, otherwise it remains a strange incident of some 'alien' intelligence trying to make people believe the USA is doing something it should not, and she asks why they would.

Explanation offered
Experimental plane (investigator's suggestion, rejected by witness); experimental USA craft

In their words

  • What I saw was very real and very close to the ground. There were definitely no wings, no windows or doors visible.

    J S, spread 06

  • And why should they do that?

    Cynthia Hind, spread 06

  • The subject has not yet responded to regressive hypnosis.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 12

Cross references

  • UFO Afrinews 1 p 23 (original report) and p 2 Fig 1 (drawing)
  • Illustration 3, p 19
  • UFO Afrinews No 3 (promised report on the second hypnosis session, June 1989)

Connected

  • Report by J S of Cape Town: the 'U S A rocket'Case fileHind follow-up

    Afrinews 2 follow-up to the Nov/Dec 1980 'USA rocket'; JS corrects the drawing (sharp nose, white body) and a 1988 hypnosis attempt fails. One event, second report.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 2 (June 1989), spread 06, 12

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