Alien Descriptions: Hugo Ferreira's silver faceless figures, Groendal Reserve

What was reported

A boxed 'Alien Descriptions' quotation on page 14 gives Hugo Ferreira's recollection from the Groendal Reserve case: the figures he saw were entirely silver, he could make out no face on them, and their movement was odd, more a glide across the ground than walking. The issue gives no date or narrative for the encounter, which Hind has told in full in UFOs-African Encounters (pages 138 to 152 and 153, cited in the editorial footnotes). The editorial names 'the Groendal boys' with JS of Cape Town and Caroline of Zimbabwe as witnesses who reported a feeling of altered consciousness, which Hind takes as possible evidence that the beings come from another time dimension.

What Hind made of it

Hind cites the Groendal boys in her editorial as an example of altered consciousness during an encounter, consistent with her time-dimension speculation.

In their words

• They were completely silver and I couldn't see any face at all

• it looked more as though they were gliding over the surface.

Cross references

• UFOs-African Encounters, pp 138-152, 153
• Editorial, spread 04

Connected

• Groendal Reserve: silver-suited men on the hillCase fileSame witness

  Hugo Ferreira is named in both. 06-09-4 is a boxed 'Alien Descriptions' quotation from him (entirely silver, no face, a glide rather than walking) lifted out of the same 1 October 1978 Groendal encounter that 22-04-1 narrates in full. Same witness, same event, two records.

• Groendal Reserve: four boys, three silver-suited men, nine impressionsCase fileSame place

  Both are Groendal Reserve, 1978, four boys, silver-suited figures. One event recorded twice. The coordinates differ by 27.2 km: 10-05-2 is placed at -34.0424, 25.49, south of the city near the coast, about 52 km from the actual Groendal Wilderness Area north-west of Uitenhage.

• Groendal Reserve: four boys, three silver-suited men, nine impressionsCase fileHind follow-up

  Hind recycles Groendal across the run: as an 'Alien Descriptions' box supporting her time-dimension speculation (06-09-4) and as her worked example of 'indisputable but unprovable' evidence (10-05-2). Both point back to her book UFOs-African Encounters, pp 138-152 and 153, so all three records share one written source.

Source

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

In the archive

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1978 · South Africa

Three men in silver on the hill at Groendal

Four boys waiting for a lift home watched three men in silver suits glide up a hill of tall fynbos and vanish. The ground they had come from was marked.

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