J.S. of Cape Town: rocket-type object unseen by traffic

What was reported

Hind cites her Case 2 as an example of a recurring oddity. J.S. of Cape Town, in company with a seventeen-year-old girl, saw a rocket-shaped object as large as a Boeing 747 over the city, yet nobody else reported it and none of the traffic on the busy Bellville to Cape Town road stopped to look. She asks how this can be accounted for and says there are dozens of similar cases in which the witness sees the object clearly while no one nearby does, inviting readers to offer an explanation. The full account appeared in earlier issues.

What Hind made of it

Hind finds it intriguing that in so many close-quarter cases no one else is present or notices, and asks readers for explanations.

In their words

• the witnesses clearly see the object and yet no one else does.

Cross references

• UFO Afrinews No 1
• UFO Afrinews No 2
• UFO Afrinews No 6

Connected

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

  Afrinews 7 cites JS as the type case of the 'nobody else looked' oddity; adds a 17-year-old companion. Fourth report of one event.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 7 (January 1993), spread 12

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