Fred Hawker's household: regular lights towards Somabula

What was reported

After her own sighting near The Poort, Mrs W. mentioned it to Fred Hawker, a Canadian working for Timbert. He told her that he, his wife and many of their workers had seen many lights, to the left of where she had seen hers, so regularly that they hardly took any notice. She adds that their front view faced Somabula, an area in the middle of Zimbabwe where a magnetic fault is supposed to exist, with tungsten and other ores present and formerly extensive mining. Hind prints the letter without comment on this point.

What Hind made of it

Hind prints the letter without comment beyond a footnote on the Tribal Trust Lands.

Explanation offered
A magnetic fault, tungsten and other ores and former mining at Somabula (writer's suggestion); fireballs or meteorites of great brilliance

In their words

• they had all seen events on such a regular basis that they hardly took any notice.

Cross references

• Mrs W.'s own sighting near The Poort (04-24-2)
• Tribal Trust Lands 'Makiwa aircraft' (04-25-1)

Connected

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

  Both are hearsay passed on inside the single Mrs W. letter, and both describe habitual, near-daily lights. Counting them as two independent reports of repetition would double-count one correspondent.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 4 (March 1991), spread 24-25