Case No 95 · UFO Afrinews No 11, Feb. 1995
Slow aeroplane-like object over Deka, Hwange
1994 ยท Deka, Hwange area, Hwange, Zimbabwe
What was reported
At 21:10, about fifteen minutes after the Bulawayo and Kariba sightings, seven people in the Hwange area near Deka in Zimbabwe's north-west watched what looked like a slow-moving aeroplane as big as a Boeing 747 Jumbo with lit cabin windows. It appeared to be as low as the tree tops and seemed about to crash. Hind's Figure 2, drawn from their description, shows a dark elongated body with two square lit windows, a tail fin and rays of light streaming from the front. No names, sound or duration are given; the report is one of the tree-top-level accounts from the night of 14 September 1994 that led Hind to doubt the meteor identification.
What Hind made of it
Included among the low, slow accounts that troubled the meteor explanation.
Explanation offered
Aeroplane about to crash
In their words
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It was as low as the tree tops and seemed as though it was going to crash.
Cross references
- 11-05-1 umbrella entry for Case No 95
- Figure 2