Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 41 · UFO Afrinews No 7, January 1993

Stuart Marongwe clarifies his brother's fast cloud over Njelele

1985 · Njelele, Matobo area; Stuart lives near Kwe Kwe in the Midlands, Zimbabwe

What was reported

Stuart Marongwe, 19, of near Kwe Kwe, writes to clarify his brother's report printed as Case 41 in Afrinews No 6. In 1985 or 1986, very early one morning near Njelele, his brother and some friends saw a gleaming grey-white cloud come from the west at frenetic speed and pass directly over them in eerie silence, heading east. It stayed in view for about a minute, long enough to judge that it was a long, roughly elliptical shape with a fuzzy outline, high up and evidently very large. Stuart wonders how such a thing could move so fast through the lower atmosphere without vaporising or making a sound, and hopes the answer lies in UAP propulsion.

What Hind made of it

Printed as a clarification; no editorial verdict.

In their words

  • A gleaming, grey-white cloud came from the west at a frenetic speed, heading east.

    Stuart Marongwe (quoting his brother), spread 17

Cross references

  • UFO Afrinews No 6 Case 41

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 7 (January 1993), spread 16-17