South African Abduction in 1988

What was reported

Debra, a graphic artist, and her mother Pat had worked until 03:30 on an SABC television commercial when Debra drove Pat the seven-minute journey home. A light behind them swept forward and engulfed the car; Pat locked the doors and put her head on the wheel. Both then recall being taken through a white mist by a woman and a man into a circular room with an examination table a metre off the floor, being X-rayed, having a knitting-needle-like instrument topped with small phials pushed in beneath the breastbone, and giving blood for DNA and RNA tests. The commander, Meleelah, small and hairless with a newborn's head, spoke perfect English in a sing-song voice and showed them Johannesburg and the Hillbrow Tower below. She wrote their altitude on yellow paper that Pat later found, then lost. They were absent about two hours. Hind interviewed them three times after an M-Net segment.

What Hind made of it

Hind calls it the best abduction case she has handled in southern Africa and has no doubt the women had an abduction experience, though imagination may colour some details; she established a two-hour absence and saw no folie a deux, while Dr Willie Smith feels the recall is too detailed for the time available.

Explanation offered
Imagination or clouded memory of details; Dr Willie Smith doubts the volume of recall

In their words

• It is certainly the best abduction I have had in southern Africa.

• She had no hair on her head, but Pat pointed out that her head was like that of a new-born baby

• But there is no doubt in my mind that these women had an abduction experience

Cross references

• M-Net UAP programme early 1992
• Witwatersrand Planetarium
• South African UFO Research Society
• SAUFORA
• Betty and Barney Hill 1961
• The Interrupted Journey by John Fuller
• Hind's June 1993 USA and Britain trip
• Johannesburg meeting December 1992

Connected

• Two women abducted while driving (Patricia and Deirdre)Case fileSame witness

  'Patricia and Deirdre' (No 7 outline, July 1988 Johannesburg pair) are 'Pat and Debra' of No 8: same 03:30 drive home, same single light overtaking the car, same click. Pseudonyms changed between issues.

• South African Abduction (Johannesburg 1988): Pat and Debra updateCase fileHind follow-up

  Northcliff update dated to 19 July 1988; adds scoop scar, six skin samples, tidal-wave prophecy and the vanished paper slip. Meleelah named in both.

• Phyllis and Diane of Northcliffe and Me-lee-lah's tidal-wave warningCase fileNamed person

  Meleelah / Me-lee-lah: the same commander, the same 72-metre waves, now read uneasily against Jacobs and Hopkins.

• Brief Encounters: June B. on the operating table (October 1994)Case fileNamed person

  Kenny McKinnon/MacKinnon is named in both: the Johannesburg contact for Pat and Debra and the interviewer of June B. Both accounts feature a rigid needle-like instrument inserted during an examination.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 8 (Sept. 1993), spread 6-8

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