The 'Rooster Crowing Alien'

What was reported

Jan Oberholzer, a retired Pretoria boilermaker, describes an experience from the early fifties on the farm Leeuwpoort, just over the hill from the East Driefontein Mines where he grew up. He calls it a dream because listeners laugh. A craft landed on the farm and a thin being with long black hair, dark skin, white teeth and upswept eyebrows came to fetch him and show him around; the farm dog bit it and it made a continuous noise like a young rooster learning to crow. Carrying a food basket his mother packed, Jan walked to the craft, which stood on three hinged folding legs and looked like two shells or saucers joined, about 10 m across, with small windows, lights and ribbed brown upholstery inside. A stairway retracted, the door closed and it rose swiftly and silently. He could not recall eating or returning, but woke remembering everything.

What Hind made of it

Presented without comment; Hind notes he is a simple, pleasant man who expects little from life and nothing much has happened to him except this.

Explanation offered
The witness himself frames it as a dream to avoid ridicule

In their words

• I'm going to call this 'a dream', because when I tell this story, many people just want to laugh

• it was like a young rooster trying to crow for the first time ... but he was making that noise all the time

• When I woke up I could remember the whole incident clearly.

Cross references

• Case No 20 ('another case in point')

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 3 (May 1990), spread 14-15

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