Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 73 · UFO Afrinews No 8, Sept. 1993

The Flickering Blue Flame and Missing Water

1991 · Kommetjie, Cape Town, Atlantic seaboard, South Africa

What was reported

Mrs P.L. of Kommetjie, unable to sleep because of the swimming-pool filter, went out at about 2 a.m. to switch it off and found a flickering flame about 30 cm high and intensely blue burning in the sand beside the filter, not coming from the machine itself. After roughly fifteen seconds it vanished. Looking up, she saw a similar flame in the window of the only neighbouring house, which shrank away as she watched; frightened, she went back to bed and pulled the blankets over her head. Next morning her husband, a builder, found the pool about 2,000 litres short of its 20,000-litre capacity, with no leak, no spill, a working filter and a calm cloudless night ruling out lightning. Hind links it to her earlier research on water loss around unexplained events, though no UAP was seen.

What Hind made of it

Hind sees it as a typical example of water loss linked to some unknown event, stressing that the blue flame is not a UAP and that a visible UAP is not a prerequisite for the phenomenon.

Explanation offered
Witness first assumed an electrical fault or a reflection; lightning and a leak were ruled out

In their words

  • After about 15 seconds, the flame just vanished.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 9

  • The basic research here is on the LOSS OF WATER, with some untoward event connected either directly or indirectly, with it.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 9

Cross references

  • UFO Afrinews No 4 pp 17-19 on UAPs and water

Connected

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 8 (Sept. 1993), spread 9

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