Bright light near 'The Poort', Gweru (letter from Mrs W.)

What was reported

Mrs W., now of Gweru, recalls that while living in Shurugwi until about fourteen years before writing (roughly 1977) she and her husband, driving home very late from a dance in Gweru, saw a very bright light in the sky just to the right of the road as they neared the hills called The Poort. They turned up the Gwenora Road to get closer, but after about a mile the light faded; no object was ever seen, only the light. Many months later friends who had driven home separately from the same dance admitted they had seen it too but said nothing for fear of being laughed at. She wonders whether it was a fireball or meteorite of great brilliance.

What Hind made of it

Explanation offered
Fireballs or meteorites of great brilliance (the writer's own suggestion)

In their words

• We did not see any object, only a bright light.

Cross references

• Fred Hawker's Somabula lights, same letter (04-24-3)
• Tribal Trust Lands 'Makiwa aircraft', same letter (04-25-1)

Connected

• Fred Hawker's household: regular lights towards SomabulaCase fileSame witness

  One letter from Mrs W. Her own circa-1977 sighting near The Poort and Fred Hawker's habitual Somabula lights are consecutive paragraphs, not two reports. Hawker never wrote to Hind; his account is second-hand through her.

• 'Makiwa aircraft' landing and taking off in the Tribal Trust LandsCase fileSame witness

  Same Mrs W. letter. The Tribal Trust Lands 'Makiwa aircraft' material is third-hand, Mrs Jay Gous told Mrs W. what her husband's workers had told him, and carries no date at all.

• Aubrey and Russell: car stops on the Selukwe strip roadCase fileSame place

  18.7 km apart on the same Gweru-Shurugwi night-driving axis, roughly two years apart, both cars leaving the road to chase a light. The proximity is real but both are located by road description rather than by a fixed point.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 4 (March 1991), spread 24

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