Case · UFO Afrinews No 4, March 1991
Danie Van Graan: the warm glass and the eight-headed cabbages
the small, insignificant village where Van Graan lived (not named in this issue), South Africa
What was reported
Hind uses Danie Van Graan's case, told in full in her book UFOs African Encounters, to show why repeat visits matter. Only on her third visit to his small village did he show her the piece of glass he had picked up on the site after the craft took off, still warm to the touch with grass and sand melted into it by the craft's heat. On her second visit he had remembered the eight-headed cabbages growing beside the fence where the craft stood, a dozen other details never reported before, and his own questions: why the occupants did not try to contact him or exchange an artefact, whether they were Russians, and why two horses grazing nearby were unaffected. Elsewhere in the guide she lists his humming like bees, bloodshot sore eyes and double vision.
What Hind made of it
Hind treats Van Graan as a witness whose most significant details only emerged on later visits, all part of an overall assessment of credibility.
Explanation offered
Van Graan himself wondered whether the occupants were Russians
In their words
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still warm to the touch and with bits of grass and sand embedded in it
Cross references
- UFO African Encounters, pp. 1-20