Case · UFO Afrinews No 4, March 1991
Unusual LITS in Gweru, 11th August 1990
1990 · a friend's farm near Greystone, Gweru, Zimbabwe
What was reported
Mr 'T', an amateur astronomer whose work makes him familiar with aircraft, weather balloons and satellites, was on a friend's farm near Greystone on 11 August 1990 when what looked like a star about 15 degrees above the western horizon, due west, caught his attention by moving. From 1910 it jumped up and down and left to right, the shifts small but very fast, pausing motionless at times and occasionally dipping behind a narrow band of cloud; through binoculars it still looked like a star. Still moving erratically, it slowly sank behind a row of kopjes at about 1940. The night was cool and windless with an otherwise clear sky. Three members of his family also saw it. Trevor Thornton, Hind's Gweru correspondent, sent in the report.
In their words
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he was in no doubt that the object was moving in an odd fashion, up and down and from left to right.
Connected
Zimbabwe Air Force jets chase a French weather balloonCase fileSame place
Identical coordinates (-19.4616, 29.8206), shared with 11-16-2 as well. All three are geocoded to the Gweru town anchor, so every distance these three show to Thornhill, RAF Moffat and the Gweru substation is a property of the geocoder, not of where anyone stood.