Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 90 · UFO Afrinews No 10, August 1994

A Humming Light over a Natal house

Natal, about six kilometres from the Umbogintwini factory, Umbogintwini, South Africa

What was reported

N.J. of Natal wrote that some years ago, he cannot say how many, he and his wife Jill went to bed at their usual 22:00 and were woken about one in the morning by a loud droning that seemed to sit directly over the house. Pulling the curtains back, he found the garden flooded with a strong silvery light, which he first put down to a full moon. He wondered whether the drone came from the Umbogintwini factory six kilometres away, then realised it was overhead and far too loud for that. The couple sat up in bed feeling uneasy; he refused point-blank to go outside. A sudden loud 'whoosh' followed, the noise ceased and the bedroom darkened; at the window the 'moonlight' had gone and the night was pitch black. Fearing ridicule, they told nobody.

What Hind made of it

No assessment printed.

Explanation offered
Full moon and factory noise assumed at first and rejected by witness

In their words

  • I assumed it was caused by a full moon.

    N.J., spread 10

  • My God, that was travelling!

    N.J., spread 10

  • we were sure that people would either think we had made it up, or that we were round the bend!

    N.J., spread 10

Connected

  • Lights in the Sky B (first event): orange glow over a Durban backyardCase fileSame behaviour

    Independent witnesses (N.J. and Jill near Umbogintwini, undated; Pauline and daughter in Durban, 1980) woken in the small hours by their property flooded with light from above, no object seen, abrupt onset and abrupt end. They differ in sound (loud droning and a 'whoosh' versus utter silence) and colour (silvery versus orange). Roughly 20 km apart.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 10 (August 1994), spread 10

Nearby

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