Case No 27 · UFO Afrinews No 5, January 1992
Case No 27 recalled: Bennie Smit's shattered dam and the whirring sound before the explosion
1985 ยท Bennie Smit's farm, Fordyce bush, on the farm, where the object first appeared, Namibia
What was reported
In passing, Hind adds a detail omitted from her earlier account of Case 27, in which farmer Bennie Smit's eight-metre dam burst twelve days after a ball of light was first seen on his farm, losing all its water. Smit has admitted that shortly before the explosion he heard the object, which he associated with a whirring sound noticed on two or three previous occasions. This time the whirring came as the thing passed low over his roof, heading towards the Fordyce bush where it had first appeared. He did not go outside to look, saying nobody wanted to believe him anyway. Hind uses the detail to press her point that water plays a large part in these Namibian ball-of-light events, and that whatever the balls are, something intelligent seems to direct them.
What Hind made of it
Hind treats the whirring heard before the explosion as linking the object to the dam's destruction and cites the case as evidence of the phenomenon's interest in water.
In their words
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I didn't go outside to look. What's the use, no-one wanted to believe me.
Cross references
- UFO Afrinews No 4, page 18, Case No 27
- UFOs African Encounters
- Case No 28(c) in this issue
Source
Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 5 (January 1992), spread 12
In the archive
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