Case No 7 (follow-up) · UFO Afrinews No 3, May 1990
Follow-up to Case No 7: Du Toit's Kloof Case
1952 · Du Toit's Kloof, Mountain pass between Paarl and Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa
What was reported
Having traced 'Henry' through J J Benitez, Hind prints his corrections to the Du Toit's Kloof account from issue 2. The contact was near Christmas 1952, not 1951. A crewman explained that a heavy fluid, pumped at great speed round coiled tubes, produced or opposed a gravity field with a gyroscope-like effect, and that bars of a material charged to shield gravity, worked by levers, lifted the craft at 45 degrees; the material was unavailable on Earth. Henry's wife said he had dreamed it and his general manager threatened dismissal if he kept talking. Returning the next afternoon he found faint dinner-plate-sized disc impressions, two well defined and diagonally opposite, but no metal scrapings; an oil can of water left for the injured crewman was gone. A wartime gyroscope engineer, he developed a centrifugal-force theory that ESA colleagues found plausible.
What Hind made of it
Hind considers the case's importance hinges on the propulsion method described and asks whether it was real or 'another con from space'; she has written to the Edinburgh professor experimenting with gyroscopic weight reduction, who says results fell short of hopes, and promises more in No 4.
Explanation offered
Wife and general manager said he had dreamed it; the missing oil can may have been stolen by farm labourers; the marks may have been imagination
In their words
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It was then that I realized that I had made a fool of myself and resolved to shut up and say no more
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There was no sign of metal scraping which I was looking for.
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Was it an actual experience, or merely another con from space?
Cross references
- UFO Afrinews No 2 (June 1989), Case No 7
- J J Benitez
- BBC Science in Action
- Edinburgh University gyroscope experiment
- European Space Agency
- near-identical sighting about 15 years later in Madrid
- UFO Afrinews No 4 (promised)
Connected
CE III in the Drakenstein Mountains above PaarlCase fileHind follow-up
Henry corrects the date from 1951 to Christmas 1952 and adds propulsion detail; 05-13-1 and 17-13-1 later revert to Christmas 1951. The date never stabilises.
Source
Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 3 (May 1990), spread 19-23
In the archive
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