The Empty Water Tank

What was reported

A smallholder in the Valley of a Thousand Hills in Natal, personally known to Hind but wishing to stay anonymous, filled a corrugated-iron water tank standing on struts, which fed a trough for his daughter's horses, and climbed the side ladder to confirm it was full. Next morning his daughter accused him of ignoring her request: the tank was empty, and on inspection it was. The ground beneath was bone dry, the tank had no cracks or discernible leaks, and an engineering friend could find nothing wrong. About two days later he learned that strange lights had been reported in the sky over the area on that night. Hind lists it among the water cases; no date is given.

What Hind made of it

Hind knows the witness well and vouches for the account's authenticity.

In their words

• The ground was bone dry and there were no discernible leaks.

Cross references

• Water and UAPs review, p.17-19

Connected

• In an Altered State of Consciousness: Jack van der Merwe at Durban harbourCase fileSame behaviour

  A thematic link made by Hind herself, not an evidential one: Jack's sensation of standing in or under water in mist, and the Thousand Hills water tank emptied overnight, are both filed under her 'Water and UFOs' theme (Afrinews 4, March 1991). Different decades, 35 km apart, no witness overlap.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 4 (March 1991), spread 11-12

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