Case · UFO Afrinews No 8, Sept. 1993
Chitundu-msere-msere, the Flying Basket
Masvingo, Zimbabwe
What was reported
Ellison Madenyika of Masvingo writes that Zimbabwe's African people have their own term for UAPs, chitundu-msere-msere, meaning a flying basket. He recounts a folk tale in which a small boy, always left behind when the older boys went out to play, would nevertheless reach them by flying in his basket, chanting a rhyme of 'Tundu! Ndoita msere msere' as he crossed the sky. Hind prints the letter without comment as a piece of local tradition that links flight through the air with a familiar household object and a magical child.
In their words
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They were known as CHITUNDU-MSERE-MSERE, or a Flying Basket.