Case · UFO Afrinews No 3, May 1990
Fireball over the Botswana border, 7 May 1989 (Smithsonian observer)
1989 ยท Over the Botswana/South African border area, Botswana
What was reported
Buried at the end of the Kalahari crash exposure is the one element Hind accepts as real. A correspondent identified only as G.M.C., who watches the night sky on behalf of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, told her that on the night of 7 May 1989 he saw what he took to be a fireball coming down over the Botswana/South African border region. At the time of writing he was still going through his records to confirm the night. Hind's conclusion is that something genuinely did come down that night and that the crash-and-retrieval story was built on top of it; further enquiries were in progress and more was promised.
What Hind made of it
The only positive factor in the whole affair: something did come down that night, probably a fireball, and the hoax was hung on it.
Explanation offered
Fireball / bolide
In their words
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On that particular night he saw what he thinks was a 'fireball' coming down over the area
Cross references
- Case No 21
- Smithsonian Institute
Source
Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 3 (May 1990), spread 8
In the archive
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