Southern Africa Unexplained

Case · UFO Afrinews No 6, July 1992

Unconfirmed reports: huge round white object over Hobie Beach (Justin)

1992 · Hobie Beach, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

What was reported

The second Evening Post report of 7 May 1992 came from Justin, a university student, who was at Hobie Beach with a friend at 02:00 when a round white object flew across the city. He estimated it at between 500 metres and a kilometre in diameter, could hear no sound, and said the light was constant. A few minutes later he saw the object again, this time tilted and saucer-like in shape, and called it huge. The Airport Control Room had no record of anything unusual that night. Hind files it as unconfirmed.

What Hind made of it

Printed as unconfirmed; the airport had no record.

In their words

  • It was huge

    Justin, quoted by the Evening Post, spread 09

Cross references

  • Evening Post, Port Elizabeth, 7 May 1992
  • Patrick in Central the same night

Connected

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

  • Cigar-shaped object, paralysis and lost time at a caféCase fileSame behaviour

    Absolute silence from a large close object. Justin: no sound from something he estimated at 500 m to 1 km across. The cafe owner: 'absolute silence' during the paralysis. These are the cluster's only two fully independent accounts that agree on anything.

  • UAP AttackCase fileSame behaviour

    A second appearance minutes after the first: Justin saw the object again, tilted and saucer-like; Povey met a second light past the Elandsjaagt Dam that veered, zoomed over the car and climbed away. Both argue against a one-pass fireball.

Source

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

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