Edwin and Valdar of Koldas: The Twelve Planets Speak

What was reported

Hind notes Carl van Vlierden's new book The Twelve Planets Speak, his own version of the 'Edwin' contact case. In 1961 Edwin, a section foreman at a Durban radio factory, befriended a workmate named George, a fishing companion, who one evening revealed he was Valdar from the planet Koldas in the Confederation of Twelve Planets, in an anti-matter universe. After 18 months Valdar returned home but kept communicating with Edwin by radio, a contact said to have continued for 29 years without financial gain to Edwin. Hind declines to say whether readers should believe it, calling it a record worth hearing though parts strain credulity, and lists the earlier Stevens and Van Vlierden book and her own UFOs: African Encounters.

What Hind made of it

Neither endorses nor rejects; a most interesting communication carried on for 29 years without financial gain, though certain sections strain credulity.

In their words

• Whatever is happening, it is certainly something that should be listened to, although there are certain sections which strain the credulity.

Cross references

• UAP Contact from Planet Koldas (Stevens & Van Vlierden)
• UFOs: African Encounters (Cynthia Hind)
• The Twelve Planets Speak (Adams & Co, Durban, R29)

Connected

• Edwin of Durban and the Confederation of Twelve PlanetsCase fileNamed person

  Both are Hind's printings of the same claim: Edwin, section foreman at a Durban radio factory, in radio contact with 'Valdar' of Koldas from 1961. 18-03-1 is her editorial recollection (Afrinews 18, July 1998) of 03-26-1's book review (Afrinews 3, May 1990). One claim, not two reports.

• Edwin of Pinetown: the men with police badges and the confiscated radioCase fileNamed person

  Same Edwin and same mentor Carl van Vlierden; 19-04-2 places him in Pinetown, the others in Durban (Pinetown is a Durban satellite town, so this is an address change, not a different person). The men-with-badges episode is a sub-plot of the Koldas contact, not an independent event.

• Edwin of Durban and 'George'Case fileNamed person

  21-19-1's footnote says Edwin's first contact was 'George'; 03-26-1 says the workmate and fishing companion George revealed himself as Valdar. Internally consistent, and a fourth printing of the one claim.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 3 (May 1990), spread 26

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