Case No 63 · UFO Afrinews No 7, January 1993
The Click Sound: Danie van Graan at Loxton
1975 · Loxton, north of Beaufort West, Northern Cape, South Africa
What was reported
Hind revisits a 1975 case from her book to illustrate the click sound. Early on 31 July 1975, around 07:30, Danie van Graan walked to his sheep pen at Loxton, an isolated spot north of Beaufort West, and took a distant object for a caravan of uranium prospectors he might share coffee with. Closer, it proved to be a craft standing on tubular legs, three visible of five. Inside were very short figures in shiny white or cream overalls who ignored him until, about three metres away, they all looked up as if he had tripped a magnetic field. He heard a click, a small shutter opened and a beam of light struck him. Clear ground marks were left and photographed by the Loxton police; Hind holds the pictures.
What Hind made of it
Hind treats it as a key case; the click heard clearly by van Graan is one of three examples she offers for a click preceding close encounters.
In their words
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He heard a 'click' sound, a small shutter opened, and they hit him with a beam of light.
Cross references
- UFOs African Encounters (Hind's book)
- Case No 48
- Case No 50
- UFO Afrinews No 4 (water article)
Connected
Danie van Graan, Loxton: the two-metre dead circleCase fileSame witness
Same morning, same kraal. 10-05-1 is Hind's own site visit 'not long after' 31 July 1975, the trace half of the identical event, published three issues later.
Danie van Graan, Loxton, 31 July 1975 (radiation effects recap)Case fileSame witness
Both give 31 July 1975, the click and the beam. They disagree on range: 07-11-1 puts van Graan about three metres from the craft when the occupants looked up, 17-10-3 about five.
Danie van Graan and the caravan without wheels, LoxtonCase fileSame witness
The two fullest narratives, fourteen issues apart. Both: caravan taken for uranium prospectors, click, beam. Only 21-03-1 adds the console of flashing lights, the near-collision with the windmill, conjunctivitis and double vision, and four arrow indentations plus a criss-cross imprint. Detail accretes with retelling.
Danie van Graan at Loxton (editorial recap, slow motion)Case fileSame witness
Same approach, same prospector misreading; 16-03-1 adds the slow-motion movement and places the witness climbing the three-metre flood wall below the hillside reservoir.
Danie van Graan of Loxton: four pale people in a 'caravan'Case fileSame witness
Same 31 July 1975 event; 19-14-2 is the entity-description recap only, giving 1.40 m stature, hooded cream overalls and fair hair.
Loxton 1975: sulphur in Danie van Graan's groundCase fileSame witness
Same 1975 Loxton investigation; 22-09-1 is the soil-chemistry aside plus the Joe Nyman letter endorsing the case from Massachusetts.
Danie van Graan of Loxton: the glass 'jewel' and the sheep that walked around the circleCase fileSame witness
14-03-2 dates the same encounter to 1972, the only date in the cluster that disagrees with 31 July 1975, which eight other records give. Almost certainly a slip, but it is an internal contradiction in the archive.
Jack van der Merwe: giant ant on a lonely Cape roadCase fileNamed person
Printed in the same issue (No 7), pages 11 and 19. The common thread is Hind as editor, with the ant credited to Pamela Puxley; nothing links the events beyond the province and the decade, and Hind said so herself.
Loxton 1975: sulphur in Danie van Graan's groundCase fileNamed person
Hind names herself as investigator in eight of the eleven records. The only outside name attached to the Loxton case anywhere in the cluster is Joe Nyman of Massachusetts, a correspondent praising her Dayton lecture slides, an endorsement from abroad, not a witness.
Source
Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 7 (January 1993), spread 11
In the archive
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