Case · UFO Afrinews No 6, July 1992
The Jungle Tribe from Mars: Martian descendants near Kisangani (Sunday tabloid)
1988 ยท jungle east of Kisangani, Zaire, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
From the Weekly World News of 12 July 1988: a Swedish party under Dr Signe Winslof, studying Zairean tribal cultures in April 1988, allegedly found a jungle tribe east of Kisangani descended from 25 travellers who fled a virus on Mars in 1812; three originals, then 176 years old, supposedly survived. After initial distrust the tribesmen showed the rusted remains of a silver crescent-shaped starship. Their fifty descendants were described as black and fully human except for completely white eyes, fond of circular patterns and hoops in their homes and body paint, speaking an African dialect among themselves but Swedish and English with the scientists, keeping maps of Mars and the solar system yet refusing to discuss their past. A full scientific report with photographs was promised for later in 1988. Hind remarks drily that she is still waiting for it.
What Hind made of it
Hind notes with irony that the promised report, which would revolutionise knowledge of life on Mars, has never appeared.
Explanation offered
tabloid sensationalism
In their words
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Well, we are still waiting for the published report which, obviously, would revolutionise our knowledge of life on Mars!
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they still possess the knowledge and technology to travel through space and colonise planets.
Cross references
- Weekly World News, July 12, 1988
- Comment on Mars, spread 12 (Brian Crowley, Return to Mars)