Avril's stationary ball of flame

What was reported

Avril, then a home economist, recalled an earlier event about eight to ten years before her 1993 interview. Coming home from a party at two or three in the morning, she was crossing her front lawn when she turned toward the east and saw an enormous ball of flame, orange-yellow and glowing, which she estimated at ten times the apparent size of the sun and which was certainly not the sun. It did not move but hung stationary in the sky. She did not stay to watch, but another person with her saw it too. The next day a newspaper carried a report of the same object seen by others.

In their words

• It was so big that it was just unbelievable; ten times bigger than the sun would have been.

• It didn't move; it was just sitting there, stationary in the sky.

Cross references

• Case No 78 (09-14-1)

Connected

• 'Bus' in the SkyCase fileSame witness

  Avril: the 20 June 1993 'bus' and a c.1984 stationary ball of flame; the earlier one claims next-day press corroboration that is not traced.

• Hundreds report object hovering over Table Mountain (Weekend Argus)Case fileSame behaviour

  Huge stationary light, many witnesses, newspaper report next day: Avril c.1984 (in the east at 2-3 am, 'ten times the sun'), the 1992 crowd.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 9 (February 1994), spread 14

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