Southern Africa Unexplained

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

Other Harare reports: Auchterlonie in Newlands and Jonasi in Dzivaresekwa

1994 · Harare suburbs: Newlands, Dzivaresekwa, Mabelreign; also Concession, Harare, Zimbabwe

What was reported

Two further Harare reports. Brian Auchterlonie, 20, of Newlands, said the bright light emerged from cloud at about 70 degrees with two streaks coming out behind, tinged red and white; it flew directly overhead and showed a flat base of dull metallic grey. Mukurawo Jonasi wrote a speculative letter: in the suburb of Dzivaresekwa his group saw it travel north-east to south-east, people in Mabelreign saw it go another way, and people in Concession saw a different object, so he argued these were harmless rubble from the collision he linked with Jupiter in August, fallen in the sea rather than on Earth, and dismissed scientists' talk of an American or Russian spacecraft. His sketch, The Big Stone (Figure 6), shows a dark stone whose ray bends around the stars, which he took as a magnetic field attracting them.

What Hind made of it

Hind calls Jonasi's letter intriguing and speculative and prints his diagram without endorsing it.

Explanation offered
Rubble of stones scattered by the August 1994 planetary collision, which fell in the sea (Jonasi); American or Russian spacecraft (unnamed scientists, per Jonasi)

In their words

  • It flew right overhead and had a flat base of a dull metallic grey.

    Cynthia Hind, from Brian Auchterlonie's report, spread 10

  • I think they fell in the sea for us not to discover them.

    Mukurawo Jonasi, spread 10

Cross references

  • 11-05-1 umbrella entry for Case No 95
  • Figure 6 The Big Stone

Connected

  • UAP Flap in ZimbabweCase fileSame window

    Sub-entry of Case No 95: Auchterlonie in Newlands (overhead pass, red and white streaks, flat grey base) and Jonasi in Dzivaresekwa (different tracks from different suburbs, his 'Big Stone' sketch).

  • C.H. Alexander of Civil Aviation, HarareCase fileSame window

    Alexander's north-to-south track over the airport and Auchterlonie's overhead pass in Newlands are consistent with one object seen from two suburbs 9 km apart; Jonasi's north-east to south-east track and the differing Mabelreign and Concession accounts are what made Hind suspect two or three objects, which is also what a fragmenting re-entry looks like from different bearings.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 11 (Feb. 1995), spread 10-11

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