Car-shaped UAP: Jason at Chegutu

What was reported

Martin Chibanda of Kwe Kwe interviewed Jason, a Chegutu man who had never heard of UAPs. Before 4 a.m. one morning Jason was about 200 metres from a dirt road when he heard a sound and a blinding light came over the horizon onto the road. He took it for a car or heavy vehicle until the intense light and an unfamiliar persistent rumble unsettled him. The object lifted off the road, darted about above the ground among nearby trees, then shot straight up at amazing velocity and was gone within minutes. It was large, streamlined and glowing yellow with a blinding white light in front, shaped like a traditional African pot with a lit cap bearing darker triangular marks. The rumble shook the ground even while it flew and lingered after it vanished. Neighbours spoke of spirits or magic.

What Hind made of it

Hind first thought of a ball of light but cannot account for the noise, the ground vibration or the strange shape; investigation continues.

Explanation offered
Ball of light (considered and rejected by Hind); visitors from the spirit world or someone practising magic (locals)

In their words

• he had never heard of them and insisted that it was either a spirit or some magic

• it seemed to disturb the ground and caused tremors even when it was in the air

Cross references

• Figure 8

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 11 (Feb. 1995), spread 18

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