Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 50 · UFO Afrinews No 10, August 1994

South African Abduction (Johannesburg 1988): Pat and Debra update

1988 · Northcliff, Johannesburg, South Africa

What was reported

Update on the Northcliff, Johannesburg abduction of 19 July 1988, first reported in AFRINEWS No 8 and now a chapter in Hind's second African UAP book. Pat and her daughter Debra spent about two hours aboard a craft under a commander called Meleelah or Melah. Debra bears a scoop scar below her right breast where a needle-like probe was inserted, she was told, to test DNA, RNA and haemoglobin; a small round yellow plaster then melted into her skin. A man with a matchbox-sized device drew six skin samples from skin folds. Meleelah showed them an ordinary map of Earth and foretold a cataclysm drowning the coast from North-West Cape to Natal under 72-metre waves, a US war with a Middle Eastern country, and AIDS spreading worldwide. Both chose 'lesser recall'. A slip of paper with figures, kept in a telephone drawer, survived a house move, then vanished.

What Hind made of it

Hind is absolutely sure both women are describing what was real to them, and wonders whether choosing lesser recall reflects trauma or something subconscious.

Explanation offered
Hind raises the possibility of subconscious origin without endorsing it

In their words

  • Oh, now I can show my friends that all this really happened to me

    Debra, spread 14

  • You can have greater recall, or lesser recall; what do you want?

    Meleelah (as reported by Pat), spread 15

  • both women are telling us of what was a reality to them, however else others may see it.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 15

Cross references

  • AFRINEWS No 8, Sept 1993
  • Editorial, spread 04: vanished piece of paper from the craft
  • Hind's forthcoming second book on UAPs in Africa

Connected

  • South African Abduction in 1988Case fileHind follow-up

    Northcliff update dated to 19 July 1988; adds scoop scar, six skin samples, tidal-wave prophecy and the vanished paper slip. Meleelah named in both.

  • An addition to Case No 50: Phyllis and Diane namedCase fileNamed person

    Pat and Debra become Phyllis and Diane after telling Shirley MacLaine and John Mack; Hind's list of thirteen matches with American reports is compiled here.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 10 (August 1994), spread 04, 14-15

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