Janet of Bulawayo

What was reported

Janet, a young Bulawayo woman whose vivid astral-travel dreams have later matched real places she had never visited, recalled a dream from about six years earlier: she lay on one of many instrument-laden tables in an all-metal room while ordinary-looking people in shiny white or silvery one-piece suits did something to her head. She woke with a blister the size of a Zimbabwean five-cent coin on the side of her head; a faint mark remains, confirmed by her mother. Since then hair dryers and curling tongs cause a painful surge at that spot, thunderstorms leave her tingling and distressed, and three times (a London office in 1984, her dining room, her kitchen) light fittings fell and shattered beside her. Shortly before the dream she glimpsed two 6 cm winged 'fairies' among nasturtiums. She fears 'they' will return but would go willingly.

What Hind made of it

Hind found Janet completely genuine, intelligent, embarrassed and puzzled, withdrawn and reluctant to talk, and certainly not telling all; apart from her mother verifying the scar there is little Hind can do to authenticate the story, so she prints it for readers to judge. Janet promised to record further events but Hind has heard nothing since early 1989.

Explanation offered
A dream; Janet accepts she may be psychic; Hind is wary of abduction claims where no craft is seen

In their words

• She dreamt she was in a room which was made of metal: floor, ceiling, walls, were all of metal.

• if they want her to go with them, she would do so willingly.

• Janet appeared to be completely genuine, intelligent and puzzled by her strange experiences.

Cross references

• Budd Hopkins, Missing Time and Intruders (Janet had never heard of Hopkins or read any UAP book)
• p.40 'Janet of Durban' cited as an example of waking from bedroom into a craft (not necessarily the same Janet)

Connected

• UAP Effects: Bulawayo woman's forehead scar and exploding bulbsCase fileHind follow-up

  20-17-2 explicitly recalls Case 23 of issue 4: the same Bulawayo woman, metal room of instrument-laden tables, figures in white or silver one-piece suits, a five-cent-coin blister above the temple, exploding bulbs and light fittings falling where she had sat. The date drifts from 'about six years' before a 1989 interview to '1985' between tellings; Hind's follow-up letters went unanswered. One event, two records.

• Report from Jenny, of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: the octagonal building and the Turkish earthquakeCase fileSame behaviour

  Both are Bulawayo women who describe 'travelling' or astral dreams that later match real places, crews in one-piece uniforms (blue overalls at consoles under screens; white-silver suits at instrument tables), and both call themselves psychic. Hind printed both among abductees and notes neither had read Hopkins. Independent witnesses, a decade apart.

• The Hawks over BulawayoStorySame window

  Same year at most: Janet's dream is 1984 in one telling and 1985 in the other (20-17-2), and neither record gives a month. No link beyond the calendar.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 4 (March 1991), spread 04-06

Nearby

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• The Hawks over Bulawayo 1985 · 13 km