Travelling Light with Unusual After Effects: Mazowe Dam, 1968

What was reported

Two friends night-fishing for carp at Mazowe Dam, about 200 metres from the main road and facing south-east, saw a bright white light come over the hills on the far shore at about 22:30. They first took it for car headlights until they agreed no road ran there. Its height never changed as it came straight at them, and an eerie silence fell over the whole area. Overhead it turned orange, then nearly red, changed direction, seemed to accelerate and vanished towards the dam wall, all within perhaps 15 seconds. Some 15 seconds later a huge circle of light, perhaps 300 metres across, appeared in the middle of the lake as if the water were lit from beneath by a single source. Shaken, the two packed up and left. George B. says it was one strong glow with no defined shape.

What Hind made of it

Printed as a first-hand account under Hind's heading without editorial comment.

Explanation offered
Car headlights considered and rejected because there was no road where the light first appeared

In their words

• As the light got closer, an eerie silence seemed to settle on the entire area and nothing could be heard.

• It was as though the water was being lit from underneath, from a central light source.

• We were dumbfounded as we both knew we had sat through something very peculiar indeed.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 5 (January 1992), spread 5-6

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