Southern Africa Unexplained

Case · UFO Afrinews No 4, March 1991

'Makiwa aircraft' landing and taking off in the Tribal Trust Lands

Tribal Trust Lands between Shurugwi, Zvishavane and Mashava, Shurugwi, Zimbabwe

What was reported

Mrs W. also passes on what a Mrs Jay Gous told her: many years earlier, when Mrs Gous's husband worked in what were then the Tribal Trust Lands between Shurugwi, Zvishavane and Mashava, many of the African people there saw strange things almost daily. Questioned closely, they described events well beyond Air Force activity, including the landing and taking off of vehicles that were not helicopters, which in their own words they called 'Makiwa aircraft', meaning white men's things in the air, and could not explain. Mrs W. expects the area to be full of such stories. Hind adds a footnote explaining that Tribal Trust Lands were the 41 percent of colonial Zimbabwe set aside for African occupation.

What Hind made of it

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

Explanation offered
Air Force activity was considered but the reports went beyond it (writer's remark)

In their words

  • many of the African people out there saw strange things on almost a daily basis.

    Mrs W. of Gweru, spread 25

  • 'Makiwa Aircraft', i.e. 'white men's things in the air', unexplainable to our knowledge.

    Mrs W. of Gweru, spread 25

Cross references

  • Mrs W.'s own sighting near The Poort (04-24-2)
  • Fred Hawker's Somabula lights (04-24-3)

Connected

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

  • Fred Hawker's household: regular lights towards SomabulaCase 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.

  • Letter: Hélène on Jenny of Bulawayo and MB of Masvingo as structured dreamsCase fileHind follow-up

    The two cluster members that are not really Midlands cases at all. 02-10-1 is Helene's January 1989 letter revisiting two Afrinews 1 accounts (Jenny of Bulawayo, MB of Masvingo), with Hind replying that she once held the lucid-dream view and no longer does; its point sits 117 km from Masvingo and 117 km from Bulawayo, i.e. the midpoint of two places both outside the Midlands. 04-25-1 is undated third-hand hearsay. Both are printed by Hind with commentary rather than investigation.

Source

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

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