Cleo's Report: an early UAP, Zambia

What was reported

Cleo recalls a weekend in September 1965 at the shop and house she ran just across the border in Zambia. About five people, including the shop guards, were sitting by a fire beneath big trees when she spotted a star-like light racing in from the west, lower than the treetops, seemingly coming down to land near the shop. They all ran towards it. It was plainly round, and its glare hurt her eyes; she cried out that it was a flying saucer, having seen such pictures in the papers. It seemed to notice them, lifted over the roof of the house, passing close overhead, then climbed and streaked away east. She recalls a whitish top and a darker rim, no openings, no sound and no smell, and admits fear, having heard such machines carried little people. The group wondered if someone had come to spy on them.

What Hind made of it

No assessment printed.

Explanation offered
Witnesses wondered if it was people come to spy on them

In their words

• What kind of a star is that? It's moving so fast, surely it can't be a plane?

• It's a Flying Saucer!

• I was afraid of it all as I had heard that inside these machines there are these small people.

Cross references

• Farm landing the same weekend, 10-16-2

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 10 (August 1994), spread 16-17