Southern Africa Unexplained

Case · UFO Afrinews No 10, August 1994

Elizabeth Klarer, International Enigma

1957 · Mooi River area, Drakensberg, Natal, South Africa

What was reported

Hind's appraisal of Elizabeth Klarer, the South African contactee, who died aged 83 in Durban's Highway Hospice in early February 1994, frail and poor despite rumours of book wealth. Klarer said that in 1927, at 17, she and her sister saw a stray meteor deflected by a spacecraft; that in 1957, riding on her sister's Mooi River farm in the Drakensberg, a metal craft swept over her, its slipstream lifting her hat, while a tall silver-haired man watched from one of three portholes; and that months later she felt drawn back to the hill, was taken aboard by Akon, a research scientist from Meton in the Alpha Centauri system, fell in love and bore his son Ayling there before ill health forced her home. Hind met her in 1967/68 and stayed in touch to the end.

What Hind made of it

Hind notes no proof and no witnesses, suspects later contact was channelling, lists discrepancies, the Kew fern verdict and possible faked photos, yet admired her and says the truth will probably never be known.

Explanation offered
Channelling via mediumistic powers; plant identified at Kew as an earthly fern; photographs possibly faked

In their words

  • Not afraid this time?

    Akon (as reported by Klarer), spread 12

  • There was no proof for Elizabeth's story; no other witnesses, no collaboration.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 13

  • Whatever wrong path she may have chosen (if indeed, she did), she is beyond criticism now.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 14

Cross references

  • FATE magazine, Aug 1968
  • Beyond the Light Barrier (Howard Timmins 1980; Aquarian Book Centre 1991)
  • Illustrated Life Rhodesia article, 1967/68
  • Villas Boas, Ferreira of Mirassol and Kathy Davis cases

Connected

  • Those I Have Known: Elizabeth KlarerCase fileSame place

    10-12-1 (Mooi River area, Drakensberg, 1957) and 05-16-3 (farm Whytelease at Rosetta, 1956) are outside this cluster and give the true location of Klarer's sighting, about 150 km north-west of Durban. 20-06-1 carries default Durban city-centre coordinates and belongs to the Drakensberg, not to Durban. Klarer lived in Johannesburg and died in a Durban hospice in 1994, which is the only Durban link.

  • UFO Flashbacks: Woman takes photo of Flying Saucer (Elizabeth Klarer, Rosetta)Case fileNamed person

    Elizabeth Klarer is named in both. So is her own family circle (David Klarer in 10-12-1, the Whytelease farm of her brother-in-law in 05-16-3). These are not two witnesses agreeing; they are one witness's material entering the archive twice, 1956 and 1957, 4.9 km apart.

  • UFO Flashbacks: Woman takes photo of Flying Saucer (Elizabeth Klarer, Rosetta)Case fileSame place

    Farm Whytelease at Rosetta (05-16-3) and 'her sister's Mooi River farm' (10-12-1) are 4.9 km apart in the same stretch of the Mooi valley, and in Klarer's telling the same hill. The repeat visit is internal to her account, not an independent second report from the same spot.

  • UFO Flashbacks: Woman takes photo of Flying Saucer (Elizabeth Klarer, Rosetta)Case fileSame window

    1956 and 1957 are adjacent years, not weeks. Within 10-12-1 the genuine short window is the 1957 low pass followed 'months later' by the boarding. Both windows are Klarer's own chronology, recalled decades on, so they date the story rather than the events.

  • UFO Flashbacks: Woman takes photo of Flying Saucer (Elizabeth Klarer, Rosetta)Case fileHind follow-up

    The clearest link in the cluster. Hind tags 05-16-3 as 'the original, unembellished report' of what became Beyond the Light Barrier, met Klarer in 1967/68 (Illustrated Life Rhodesia), stayed in touch until Klarer died in February 1994, and wrote 10-12-1 as her closing appraisal. 10-12-1 exists because Hind followed 05-16-3 for roughly 27 years.

  • UFO Flashbacks: Woman takes photo of Flying Saucer (Elizabeth Klarer, Rosetta)Case fileSame behaviour

    Photography is listed in both ('photographed' / 'photographs'), and both describe a metallic craft manoeuvring at close range. Flagged for completeness only: a behaviour repeated by the same witness across two tellings of her own story carries no corroborative weight, and Hind herself notes the photographs may be faked.

  • Flying Saucer HillStorySame witness

    Same again. The story's 'took her to the stars and gave her a son' is the Akon/Ayling material Hind sets out in 10-12-1 and suspects was channelled. 14.1 km apart, but one person.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 10 (August 1994), spread 12-14

In the archive

This case became a story on this site.

1956 · South Africa

Flying Saucer Hill

A Rosetta farmer's daughter said a ship came down on a hill above the Mooi River, and that its pilot took her to the stars and gave her a son.

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