Case No 89 · UFO Afrinews No 10, August 1994
Dalene's Report: red-orange ball at the Kadoma Drive-In
1989 ยท Kadoma Drive-In Cinema and Restaurant, between Eiffel Flats and Kadoma, Chakari (hills 12 miles away), Zimbabwe
What was reported
Dalene W. of Johannesburg sent a sketch of a large light she and her in-laws watched on Boxing Day 1989 during a science-fiction film at the Kadoma Drive-In Cinema and Restaurant, between Eiffel Flats and Kadoma. Her sister-in-law noticed a bright light moving slowly to the right of their parked car; it then halted for a while behind a tree beside them. The tree stood out sharply against it, and the light appeared as large as the tree itself. It was a bright red-orange ball whose colour never altered, with no noise or smell. Eventually it slid out from behind the tree and dropped from view behind hills towards Chakari, 12 miles away. The family judged it nothing like an aircraft or helicopter and, since a new Air Force base was under construction nearby, wondered whether it had been looking the site over.
What Hind made of it
Hind prints the account without a verdict; the witnesses themselves classed it as unidentifiable.
Explanation offered
Aircraft and helicopter compared and rejected by witnesses
In their words
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it must have been very large because it was the same size as the tree in front of it.
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They all decided it was definitely unidentifiable, that is, a UFO.
Cross references
- Dalene's second sighting, Johannesburg May 1991, 10-09-2