Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 2 · UFO Afrinews No 6, July 1992

Continuing investigations: Case No 2, JS of Cape Town (the Goodwood rocket)

1980 · Goodwood, Cape Town, Table Mountain, South Africa

What was reported

Hind updates the 1980 Goodwood case from Afrinews 1 and 2. Meeting Joe on her annual South African visits, she has redrawn the object to his instructions and he has approved it. Writing late at night, when he says his mind works best, he recalls a huge, clean white rocket with a neatly drawn red, white and blue flag near the front and USA lettering so large it dominated the body, with two letters and four numbers he cannot recall probably written small beneath the A. The flame issued from a flat base without any cavity, and he now puts its length at half to a full kilometre. No earthly missile need be that big, he argues, and no aircraft could carry one. From Table Mountain he judged the rocket's diameter close to that of three round tower blocks below.

What Hind made of it

Hind uses the case to argue for constant contact with major witnesses so evidence can be corrected over time, and thanks Joe for his cooperation; the editorial cites him as an example of altered consciousness during a sighting.

Explanation offered
intercontinental ballistic missile (raised and doubted by the witness on grounds of size)

In their words

  • It would be insane to explode a rocket that size.

    Joe (JS), spread 10

  • I feel quite relaxed right now as it's quite late at night when my mind seems to come on line with maximum efficiency.

    Joe (JS), spread 09

Cross references

  • UFO Afrinews No. 1, pp 23-29
  • UFO Afrinews No. 2, p 19
  • Editorial, spread 04: JS of Cape Town and altered consciousness

Connected

  • Report by J S of Cape Town: the 'U S A rocket'Case fileHind follow-up

    Afrinews 6 redraw approved by Joe/JS during Hind's annual South African visit. The object has grown from 'short, dumpy' (1980) to half to a full kilometre long. Same event, geocoded 5.2 km apart (Montevista vs Goodwood).

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

    The same 1980 event, geocoded to Montevista and Goodwood 5.2 km apart; both within 6 km of Wingfield and 3.4 km of the Acacia gas turbines, along the Bellville-Cape Town road corridor the object followed.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 6 (July 1992), spread 09-10

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