LITS over Cape Town: Interview with Arlene of Scarborough

What was reported

On the evening of 6 March 1992 Arlene, at Scarborough on the Cape Peninsula, sat for a long while watching a bright silver-white shape low over the sea horizon between 21:00 and 21:30. She described it as a squat triangle with a dome, sharply outlined against a pitch-black horizon, uniform in brightness and without windows, far brighter than a full moon on a clear night. Twinkling tanker lights on ships to either side gave her a sense of scale; Navy friends put the distance at about 120 nautical miles, which would make the object enormous. She went to bed while it was still there. She only thought of it as a UAP when the next morning's Cape Times carried a front-page story of what others had seen after 01:00.

What Hind made of it

Hind groups it with the March 1992 Cape Town LITS wave and warns that bright planets and autokinesis were misleading sincere people that month.

Explanation offered
Hind's general comment: bright stars and planets (Arcturus, Jupiter) and autokinesis

In their words

• The shape was a sort of 'squat' triangle with a dome on top.

• Whatever it was, it had no windows, it was just one solid light.

Cross references

• Cape Times front page, 7 March 1992
• Case No 66
• Editor's comments on autokinesis, spreads 07-08

Connected

• Grant and Alzanne at Clifton, CapeCase fileSame window

  6 March 1992 21:00-21:30 at Scarborough and 7 March after 01:00 at Clifton: about four hours and 30 km apart, in different directions (western sea horizon vs SSW mountains). Arlene only called hers a UAP after reading the Cape Times account of Grant's.

• Hundreds report object hovering over Table Mountain (Weekend Argus)Case fileSame window

  Bookends of the March 1992 LITS wave, the only true wave in the cluster.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 7 (January 1993), spread 06

Nearby

Stories within 60 km

• The Flying Dutchman off the Cape 1939 · 6 km
• The blue flame at the pool filter 1991 · 8 km
• The sea light at Muizenberg and the man in the vlei 1993 · 14 km
• The rider of Tokai Manor 1802 · 16 km
• Adamastor, the giant of the Cape of Storms 1655 · 20 km