Glowing dish over the Landrover, Chiredzi to Mutare road

What was reported

Around 20.30 one evening in 1974, during the war, Dave van Rhyn was driving a Landrover from Chiredzi to Mutare with his sergeant Gilbert. Bright lights behind them looked like a car, but Gilbert said it was an aeroplane flying low, odd since no airstrip existed nearby. Dave stopped, cut lights and engine, and both stood at the open doors: the light had gone. Then a huge glow rose from the right of the road through the trees, seeming to come up out of a hollow: a football-field-sized luminous translucent dish, humming and buzzing electrically. As it passed slowly over at about 110 m every hair on Dave's body stood erect and his clothes lifted from his skin; then it vanished. Gilbert was found trembling under the vehicle. Dave reported to his Commanding Officer; nothing further was done.

What Hind made of it

Recorded as a war-time incident reported to his Commanding Officer without further action.

Explanation offered
Sergeant initially thought it an aeroplane

In their words

• All the hairs on his body stood up straight and he could feel the clothes move away from his flesh

• It was about the size of a football field, glowing like a luminous, translucent pyrex dish.

• and there was his sergeant, trembling with fear!

Cross references

• Case No 18 (a) and (b)

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 3 (May 1990), spread 13-14