Crashed UAP in Botswana?

What was reported

A boxed quotation attributed to James van Greunen, as quoted by Tony Dodd, states that South African Intelligence lacks the facilities or knowledge to pursue the matter alone and that, according to a base commander, this is the third spacecraft retrieved over the African continent in the past ten years. Hind prints it under a questioning headline without any comment of her own. In the letters pages a Pretoria reader, W.S. van Heerden, says van Greunen made a good impression on South African television, but when he phoned the Johannesburg number given, the woman who answered gave a vague and distinctly dodgy reply, so he felt uneasy and dropped the attempt to make contact.

What Hind made of it

Hind prints the claim under a question-mark headline without endorsement; a reader's follow-up phone call found the published contact evasive.

In their words

• it is the third space craft they have retrieved in the past ten years, over the South African Continent.

• received a very vague and distinctly 'dodgy' reply from the woman who answered the telephone.

Cross references

• W.S. van Heerden letter, spread 18
• Tony Dodd

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 6 (July 1992), spread 05, 18