Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 79 · UFO Afrinews No 9, February 1994

Miniature Red Lights

1993 · Cape Town, Karen's bedroom, South Africa

What was reported

Karen of Cape Town, lying awake in bed on her left side facing the window in April or May 1993, heard a strange high-pitched electronic beep she took for her husband's watch. Turning over, she saw two very small, very bright red lights hanging in mid-air about 50 cm above the floor, which she watched for perhaps a second before they rose about 1.5 metres and vanished. Nothing on that side of the room could reflect light. She kept quiet for months; her husband believed her. Later she heard the same beep in the family shop, apparently from the radio, and an employee heard it again on another day. Pam Puxley re-enacted the scene at night with curtains drawn and found no outside light could explain the red lights. A clock and a watch stopped at the time.

What Hind made of it

Puxley certified no external light could have produced the lights; further queries to Karen were pending and Hind promised a later report.

Explanation offered
Husband's watch alarm and shop radio considered by witness and rejected

In their words

  • about 50 cm (20 inches) above the floor there were two very small bright red lights which I watched for maybe one second.

    Karen, spread 17

  • If you say you saw it, I believe you.

    Karen's husband, spread 17

  • Karen also recalled that a clock and a watch had stopped at the time of the incident.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 17

Connected

  • Sea LightCase fileSame window

    Muizenberg April 1993 and Karen's bedroom April/May 1993; both Puxley; both later acquire a stopped clock/watch motif (10-11-1, 09-17-1).

  • Odd Sequel to Sandra's Story: the silent man and the stopped clocksCase fileSame behaviour

    Clocks and watches stopped: Karen and Sandra, both April-May 1993, both Puxley cases. The shared investigator, who may have asked the question, is the simplest common factor.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 9 (February 1994), spread 17

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