Report from Langton M.: Do Witches Cause Lights in the Sky? (Dartmoor Estate cigar-shaped light)

What was reported

Langton M., a clerk on Dartmoor Estate, relays what his workmate Colin, a Nyau dancer, told him. One Friday night late in June 1991, about 20:00, Colin and his dancers were performing beside the farm beerhall when a white, cigar-shaped light trailing red flames passed overhead at 100 to 150 metres, racing south to north and lighting the ground almost like day. Taking it for witches or ghosts, the dancers drummed and sang harder. A family friend on a compound 2.5 km south complained next day that witches had flooded his room with light from the cemetery side; Gilbert, 200 to 250 metres north-east, saw his room brighten and heard people shouting. Colin's relatives at Murewa and his grandfather from Kariba said the same silent thing was seen there that night.

What Hind made of it

Hind wrote to the author pointing out the Friday 14th June sightings elsewhere in the issue and asked him to verify the date; she has not heard back but is almost positive it was the same sighting reported by others.

Explanation offered
Witches or ghosts, according to the witnesses; Langton, after reading UFOs African Encounters, told Colin it could have been a UAP

In their words

• they thought we would fear them, but instead we beat the drums even harder and sang even louder.

• I don't really know what they intended to do to me. The light came from the cemetery side and flooded my room.

• But we are almost positive that it was the same sighting reported by others.

Cross references

• 14 June 1991 blue light (Barnes, Lockie, Craig), spreads 7-8
• UFOs African Encounters (book)
• Letter from Langton Machekwa, spreads 20-21
• Map of Zimbabwe, spread 5

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 5 (January 1992), spread 4-5

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