Southern Africa Unexplained

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

Lyn Devres' report from Zvishavane

1994 · Zvishavane, Zimbabwe

What was reported

Lyn Devres and her husband sent a concise report from Zvishavane in the Midlands. At 20:55 on 14 September 1994 they watched the object travel in a south-easterly direction, lighting up the sky as it went. It showed a bluish light with streamers behind, and the rear lights dimmed progressively from football size to baseball to golf-ball as it receded. They put its height at about 3,000 ft, moving north to south, taking about sixty seconds to pass over with no sound. Their account sits alongside Nisbet and Silva's scientific bearings from the same town but describes a lower, slower and silent passage.

In their words

  • The sky was lit up by the object: a bluish light with streamers behind.

    Cynthia Hind, from the Devres report, spread 09

Cross references

  • 11-05-1 umbrella entry for Case No 95
  • 11-06-1 Nisbet and Silva at Zvishavane

Connected

  • Geologists take bearings on the fireball, MberengwaCase fileSame window

    Both are 14 September 1994 from Zvishavane, Devres at 20:55. Two parties in one town describing one object, a north-to-south pass of about sixty seconds, which is corroboration of an event, not of anything unexplained: it was resolved as a jettisoned Russian satellite nose cone.

  • Geologists take bearings on the fireball, MberengwaCase fileSame place

    Geocoded to identical coordinates, 1.5 km from the Zvishavane synoptic weather station and 2.2 km from the town substation. The shared point is the town anchor, not a shared vantage: Nisbet and Silva took compass bearings from a field camp, the Devres watched from home.

  • Geologists take bearings on the fireball, MberengwaCase fileHind follow-up

    Both sit under Hind's umbrella entry 11-05-1 for Case No 95, and Hind carries the identification forward: meteorite at the time, then a jettisoned Russian nose cone after Nisbet visited the Royal Observatory near London.

Source

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

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