Jack van der Merwe: giant ant on a lonely Cape road

What was reported

Sometime in the seventies Jack van der Merwe was hitch-hiking on a lonely, hot, dusty road in the Cape and had waited a long time for a lift. Turning his head he saw a huge ant coming at him as if to attack. He picked up a rock and threw it, hit the creature's head, which fell off, and the thing vanished. Astounded, he crossed the road and saw the ant again with its head lying beside it; then it vanished once more. Hind doubts this counts as a true UAP incident but notes that monsters are often allied to UAP experiences, comparing it with the Kelly-Hopkinsville creatures of 1955. Year is approximate.

What Hind made of it

Hind says one could hardly call it a true UAP happening but that monsters and strange creatures are often closely allied to UAP experiences.

Explanation offered
Heat and long wait implied by the account

In their words

• a HUGE ant, coming towards me almost as if it was going to attack.

Cross references

• Kelly-Hopkinsville 1955
• Big Foot, Sasquatch and Yeti reports

Connected

• Earlier metal ball with CCCP lettering in the CapeCase fileSame place

  Neither is a Loxton report. Both are 'somewhere in the Cape' items given the same placeholder coordinate (-31.5, 22.0), 30.7 km from the centroid. They inflate the cluster count, and their 9.9 km proximity to Gansvlei Airfield is an artefact of that placeholder, not a fact about either account.

• The Click Sound: Danie van Graan at LoxtonCase 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.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 7 (January 1993), spread 19-20

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