Meteor boom over Harare, Marondera and Rusape, 1986

What was reported

In her primer on telling meteors, planets and satellites from UAPs, Hind mentions that in 1986 a meteor striking the Earth set off ground trembling, rattled window glass and produced a loud boom across the Harare, Marondera and Rusape district of Zimbabwe. Nothing was ever recovered and the source of the event was never established. She offers it as an example of how few meteors are ever found and, in the following paragraph, of how bright bolides can seem to land close by and generate sonic booms that lead observers to mistake them for something else.

What Hind made of it

Hind treats it as a meteor whose source was never discovered.

Explanation offered
Meteor

In their words

• Its source was never discovered.

Cross references

• Learning How to be a UAP Investigator, pp 10-12

Connected

• Shimmering greenish-blue sphere near ChivjuCase fileSame window

  Both 1986 and both meteoric by Hind's own account: the 13 August dawn bolide at Chivhu (Perseid, per Willy Smith) and the boom with ground tremor across Harare, Marondera and Rusape. Not shown to be the same event; the Chivhu object was silent.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 2 (June 1989), spread 08

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