Case · UFO Afrinews No 5, January 1992
UFO Flashbacks: Flying Saucer Hovers over Ndola
1956 ยท Ndola, sky to the north of the town, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), Zambia
What was reported
Quoting Flying Saucer Review of September/October 1956, Hind reprints a Northern Rhodesian item. Early on the morning of 3 July, railway employee L. Walker saw a round, silvery object in the sky north of Ndola. It stayed in one spot for about four minutes, shifted slightly, then suddenly began to fade and within seconds was gone. Other railway workers who saw it called it a flying saucer, and employees of Harry S. Hopkins and Co also witnessed it. The Met Office ruled out a balloon, since the daily balloons went up at 05:30 and would have disappeared by eight o'clock.
What Hind made of it
Reprinted as a historical flashback without further comment.
Explanation offered
Weather balloon considered and ruled out by the Met Office on timing
In their words
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It hovered in one place for about 4 minutes, moved slightly, then all of a sudden began to fade and within seconds had disappeared
Cross references
- Flying Saucer Review, Vol 2 No 5, Sept/Oct 1956