Southern Africa Unexplained

Case 2 (Unusual Shapes and Sizes) · UFO Afrinews No 2, June 1989

O G, Randburg: three tear-drops in V formation

1985 · Randburg, Johannesburg, Lanseria Airport, South Africa

What was reported

O G of Randburg, Johannesburg, saw three tear-drop shaped objects on the night of 1-2 March 1985. They were a misty silver colour and each left a silvery trail that dispersed behind it as they passed. They flew in a V formation towards the north-east, covering an estimated 5 km in about 30 seconds at a height O G put at 7,000 to 10,000 metres above ground. The sky was cloudless and moonless and stars were visible some distance behind the objects. No aircraft noise was heard. Hind sought radar confirmation from nearby Lanseria Airport but obtained none. The sketch, numbered 1 to 3 with trails, is reproduced as Illustration 2.

What Hind made of it

No radar confirmation from Lanseria; recorded in the shapes file without further comment.

Explanation offered
Aircraft implicitly considered and rejected (no sound)

In their words

  • There was no aircraft sound.

    report of O G, spread 12

  • No radar confirmation was obtained from nearby Lanseria Airport.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 12

Cross references

  • Illustration 2, p 18
  • Lanseria Airport radar

Connected

  • Zeppelin-shaped objects over the West Rand (Herald report)Case fileSame place

    Lanseria Airport: its controllers reported the February 1984 airships; thirteen months later Hind sought Lanseria radar for the Randburg tear-drops and got nothing. Both high, silent, no radar return.

  • The Booysens Triangle, 1986Case fileSame behaviour

    Silent, above 10,000 ft, leaving trails, clear moonless night, aircraft considered and rejected for silence; 15 months apart, 6 km apart, both kept in Hind's shapes file without assessment.

Source

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

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