Southern Africa Unexplained

Case · UFO Afrinews No 6, July 1992

Unconfirmed reports: disc of bright light over Port Elizabeth (Patrick)

1992 · Central, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

What was reported

Under 'Unconfirmed Reports' Hind reprints an Evening Post (Port Elizabeth) item of 7 May 1992 in which two witnesses made separate reports of a UAP over the city in the early hours. Patrick, on the balcony of his Central flat at 01:00, saw what looked like a disc of bright light fly across the sky at tremendous speed, far too fast for an aeroplane. The Airport Control Room said it had no record of anything unusual over the city during the night or early morning. No investigation by Afrinews is recorded.

What Hind made of it

Printed as unconfirmed; the airport had no record of anything unusual.

In their words

  • It was travelling at a tremendous speed, far too rapidly for an aeroplane.

    Evening Post report of Patrick, spread 09

Cross references

  • Evening Post, Port Elizabeth, 7 May 1992
  • Justin at Hobie Beach the same night

Connected

  • Unconfirmed reports: huge round white object over Hobie Beach (Justin)Case fileSame window

    Same night and same source: both are items in the Evening Post (Port Elizabeth) of 7 May 1992. Patrick was on a Central balcony at 01:00, Justin at Hobie Beach at 02:00, 4.0 km apart and about an hour apart. Each case's own cross_refs names the other. Two witnesses, but arguably one event.

  • Unconfirmed reports: huge round white object over Hobie Beach (Justin)Case fileSame behaviour

    Both describe a bright round or disc-shaped light crossing the whole city at high speed with no reported sound and no flashing. Both were checked against the Airport Control Room, which had no record of anything unusual that night, and Hind filed both under 'Unconfirmed Reports' without investigating.

  • UAP AttackCase fileSame behaviour

    Weak link. Both witnesses reject the aircraft explanation on speed grounds. But 13-17-1 is a 30-year-old recollection solicited by a Herald letter appeal, and its events happened 79-158 km west of where it is plotted, so it is not really a report from this area at all.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 6 (July 1992), spread 09

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