Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 95 · UFO Afrinews No 11, Feb. 1995

Bulawayo reports gathered by Vivienne Pascoe

1994 · Bulawayo (Suburbs, Tegela, and a cottage facing north), Matopo Hills, Zimbabwe

What was reported

Vivienne Pascoe gathered the city's reports. From Suburbs at 20:55 P. Patel saw a huge, low, white candle-coloured object, round yet square, moving at aircraft speed with smaller objects trailing like an arrow; workers saw its nose dipping, cloud above seeming to move with it. Wayne Morgan took it for a plane on fire until it proved too big, too low and silent, star-like objects following as it crept north to south. Brett Ding and Samantha Peck described a slow, silent circular leader with green, orange and yellow tails. Pascoe, at 20:54, saw an enormous silent Zeppelin outline behind a golden front light, coloured sparkles at the rear, five or six times a Jumbo, curving north to east to south over 75 seconds toward the Matopo Hills. Laura Tolley saw a nose-cone at 200 to 300 ft come lower.

What Hind made of it

Hind calls Pascoe's the most vivid and accurate description of the night and credits her as a mine of information.

Explanation offered
Plane on fire (Morgan and Tolley at first)

In their words

  • It made absolutely no noise and was heading South towards the Matopo Hills.

    Vivienne Pascoe, spread 09

  • The amazing thing is that it moved absolutely silently.

    Samantha Peck, spread 08

  • At no time during this sighting did the object increase or decrease its speed, but moved steadily.

    Vivienne Pascoe, spread 09

Cross references

  • 11-05-1 umbrella entry for Case No 95
  • Figure 3

Connected

  • Lights in the Sky C: glass-like object over Bulawayo, 1977Case fileSame behaviour

    In both, witnesses first took the object for an approaching aircraft (1977) or a plane on fire (Morgan and Tolley, 1994), then judged it too big, too low and silent. Hind proposed the Bulawayo Airport approach for 1977. The 1994 night is the Case 95 umbrella, consistent with the mid-September 1994 rocket-body re-entry seen across Zimbabwe (inferred from the cross-reference; this summary gives no date).

  • More Lights in the Sky, Zimbabwe: EsigodiniCase fileSame behaviour

    Both are silent, multi-witness luminous bodies crossing the sky with coloured lights front and rear or trailing (reddish front, yellow rear, pulsing; golden front light with green, orange and yellow tails and following star-like objects), both were collected by the Matabeleland group (MUFORG interviewed all four in 1992; Vivienne Pascoe gathered the 1994 reports), and both have a meteor or re-entry shape. The two best-attested events in the cluster.

  • Ray Burl: rustling object over house, Famona, BulawayoCase fileSame place

    Famona and Suburbs are adjacent southern suburbs of Bulawayo, 3.4 km apart on these coordinates; 36 years apart and nothing else links them. Listed only because it is the one same-place pair with real (not placeholder) addresses.

  • From Pat T., of Bulawayo: dream of a UAP landing in the driveway and The Janos PeopleCase fileSame place

    Identical coordinates (-20.1594, 28.5872) are a geocoding placeholder for central Bulawayo, not a shared location: Pat T.'s driveway is neither located nor dated. Not a real connection; recorded so the shared point is not read as one.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 11 (Feb. 1995), spread 08-09

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