Sean Rhategan's earlier red delta-shaped object over Cape Town

What was reported

Before his 1988 disc sighting Sean had seen something else: on a clear night about 8 p.m. a red object passed over Cape Town. The whole thing was illuminated and outlined in red and reminded him of the little jet fighters in arcade video games, with a triangular nose sweeping back to two fins and then to a delta wing at the rear. It crossed the sky in a straight line from the north-west at an estimated altitude of 2000 metres. He first put it down to some Soviet test but decided rationally that could not be happening over Cape Town. He offers no year for it.

What Hind made of it

Explanation offered
Soviet test (the witness's first thought, rejected)

In their words

• it looked like those little jet fighters in the Video Games in the Arcade.

Cross references

• Case No 39 main sighting, February 1988

Connected

• Sean Rhategan of Cape Town: silver disc with portholes over Camps BayCase fileSame witness

  Rhategan's undated red delta before the Feb 1988 disc; he first thought 'Soviet test'. Aside in the same Puxley interview.

• Report by J S of Cape Town: the 'U S A rocket'Case fileSame behaviour

  Witness first reads a structured night object as a Cold War test (US rocket; Soviet test): JS 1980, Rhategan before 1988.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 6 (July 1992), spread 08

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