Case · UFO Afrinews No 3, May 1990
Danie van Graan landing marks and cabbages (editorial reference)
Danie van Graan's small farm (not named in this issue), South Africa
What was reported
In her satirical editorial, written in the voice of a debunker who set out in 1968 to demolish witnesses, Hind cites Danie van Graan as a case a sceptic would explain away: symmetrically placed ground marks that a thin, weedy but tidy and methodical man could have faked over a week of night work with accomplices, having planned it for years, and eight-headed cabbages grown after the landing that a small-time farmer might have produced to impress his suppliers. No date or place is given; the reference assumes readers know the case from her earlier work. Her real point is that such explanations are absurd and that she rejects the debunkers' reasoning.
What Hind made of it
Cited sarcastically as a case a debunker would dismiss as a laboriously staged self-hoax; Hind rejects that reasoning as ridiculous.
Explanation offered
Mock-sceptical hoax explanation: witness and accomplices faked the marks over a week of nights; cabbages arranged to impress suppliers
In their words
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As for the 8-headed cabbages produced subsequent to the landing? He was a small-time farmer
Cross references
- Editorial, printed pp.2-5
- Rosmead tennis court case