Case · UFO Afrinews No 10, August 1994
Danie van Graan, Loxton: the two-metre dead circle
1975 · Loxton, Northern Cape, South Africa
What was reported
Hind cites her own Loxton investigation as evidence she regards as beyond dispute yet impossible to prove. She reached Danie van Graan's farm not long after his encounter of 31 July 1975. A tarpaulin had protected the marks the craft had left, so they were still distinct, and a scattering of small greenish grains remained; geological analysis showed these were rich in thaumasite. Where the object had rested, the lucerne had died back, leaving a bare circle about two metres across in which nothing grew for several years. Soil tests pointed to a high alkali content as the likely reason plants could not take hold. Hind says minds far better than hers have failed to come up with any alternative explanation, and that this is a matter of being compelled by evidence, not wanting to believe.
What Hind made of it
Hind regards the evidence as indisputable though unprovable, and notes no alternative solution has been offered.
In their words
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I have been on cases of my own where the evidence is indisputable, although unprovable.
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far greater minds than mine have been unable to offer alternative solutions.
Connected
The Click Sound: Danie van Graan at LoxtonCase fileSame witness
Same morning, same kraal. 10-05-1 is Hind's own site visit 'not long after' 31 July 1975, the trace half of the identical event, published three issues later.
Loxton 1975: sulphur in Danie van Graan's groundCase fileHind follow-up
Two chemistry findings from one investigation, twelve issues apart: greenish grains rich in thaumasite and high alkali in 10-05-1, heavy sulphur in 22-09-1. Thaumasite is a sulphate mineral, so they agree, but 22-09-1 adds that the sulphur reached his water and district people came to paddle in his pool for skin complaints, which reads like a pre-existing mineral seep on the farm.
Danie van Graan and the caravan without wheels, LoxtonCase fileHind follow-up
Contradiction on the dead circle's duration: 10-05-1 says nothing grew there for several years, 21-03-1 says eighteen months.
Danie van Graan, Loxton, 31 July 1975 (radiation effects recap)Case fileHind follow-up
Hind's two 'this case is exceptional' claims, seven issues apart: evidence beyond dispute yet impossible to prove, and the only African case she handled with so harmful an outcome. Both rest on the same single event.
Source
Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 10 (August 1994), spread 05
In the archive
This case became a story on this site.
