Case No 95 · UFO Afrinews No 11, Feb. 1995
Mutare: twenty witnesses in the Eastern Highlands
1994 · Mutare, Eastern Highlands, looking toward Mozambique, Mozambique border, Zimbabwe
What was reported
Numerous calls reached Hind from Mutare in the Eastern Highlands. Rachel Haye thought it was an aircraft about to crash: very low on the horizon, moving south to south-east over the mountains into Mozambique, enormous, with two bright white front lights shading to orange toward the back. Twenty witnesses watched it for several minutes. Allan Dock confirmed her account but took it for a meteorite from the start, very big and bright with a white glow and glowing tail, not descending but heading for Mozambique. Mr Odorico likewise judged it a meteor breaking up, an incredibly bright white light fading to orange and red, on an exact west-to-east bearing about 15 degrees above the horizon and above tree-top level.
What Hind made of it
Hind notes the witnesses themselves divided between aircraft-about-to-crash and meteorite.
Explanation offered
Aircraft about to crash (Haye); meteorite breaking up (Dock, Odorico)
In their words
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It was very low on the horizon, moving South to South-East over the mountains into Moçambique.
Cross references
- 11-05-1 umbrella entry for Case No 95