Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 83 · UFO Afrinews No 9, February 1994

Isabel's see-through craft at dusk

1973 · Harare, outside the family's first house, Zimbabwe

What was reported

One evening at dusk, as the family left home for a spiritualist circle meeting, the teenage Isabel heard a humming and turned to see a craft roughly fifteen metres away, just above roof height. It was oval and ringed with lights, and although she could see its outline it seemed transparent. Figures were visible at its windows; she waved and they waved back. Nobody else shared her delight. When the family drove off she saw it follow the car, and she seems to remember her brother seeing it too. Unlike the night-time episodes in her bedroom, she remembers this as a happy experience. Recorded in her written account to Hind.

What Hind made of it

Presented within Isabel's written account without comment.

In their words

  • I heard a humming and turned to see a craft close by, about 15 metres away, above roof level.

    Isabel, spread 09

  • I saw outlines of people looking through the windows. I waved and they waved back.

    Isabel, spread 09

  • This was a happy experience for me.

    Isabel, spread 09

Cross references

  • Case No 83 (Isabel's Story, 09-08-1)

Connected

  • Isabel's StoryCase fileSame witness

    Isabel's written account; the dusk craft of 1973 outside the family's first house, occupants waving back, followed the car.

  • JB and the intriguing tie-up with the 'Hoax'Case fileSame behaviour

    An object follows the family car: Isabel's transparent oval craft at dusk in 1973 (she waved, they waved back) and JB's orange globe from Marondera to Macheke in 1975. The only two independent 'followed vehicle' accounts in the cluster.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 9 (February 1994), spread 09

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