Frances and Peter: changed terrain on the Harare-Durban road

What was reported

Given as an example of a psychological after-effect in Hind's investigator guide: Frances and Peter, South Africans, were travelling from Harare in Zimbabwe to Durban when they recognised exactly where they were, yet the familiar dry, sparsely bushed terrain appeared instead as swampland and water. Hind offers it as an instance of the background changing while the witnesses knew their location, alongside disorientation (bedroom to craft) and loss of time as after-effects an investigator should probe. No date, precise place or further detail is given in this issue.

What Hind made of it

Listed by Hind as a psychological after-effect category for investigators.

In their words

• They knew where they were but instead of dry, sparsely bushed terrain, there seemed to be swampland and water.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 4 (March 1991), spread 23

In the archive

This case became a story on this site.

1974 · Zimbabwe

The policeman outside Mvuma

A metallic policeman, a lighthouse light overhead, a car that would not slow, and a cabin so cold they wore jerseys while the garage man wore shorts.

Documented