Tyre-tread imprint in granite at Nyambuya Falls

What was reported

A second oddity from Bunty's letter, which she says happened long before the lights. Exploring on her motorbike near the falls on the Nyambuya River she found a large flat area of smooth granite bearing the black pattern of a tyre tread, about 12 to 18 inches long, its grooves clearly visible. She tried to rub it off with sand and a stone and dug at it with a screwdriver, judging it about six-eighths of an inch deep. A geologist boarding with her, who worked for Anglo American and had trained under 'Old McGregor', went to see it and was baffled, since no vehicle could reach the spot. She told nobody else and would not have dared tell Joe. Looking back she connects the two experiences and imagines the object landing on a centre wheel. Her Great Dane would stand staring at that rock and never climbed on it again.

What Hind made of it

Printed within Case 107 without comment; the writer links it to the lights only in her own imagination

Explanation offered
The geologist was 'clueless'; the writer suggests the object could land on a centre wheel

In their words

• he was 'clueless' as he said no vehicle could get there.

• I feel sure the 'tyre imprint' story was long before I saw the UFO.

Cross references

• 12-05-1 Lights and Tracks (same letter)
• Anglo American Mining Company
• Her former boarder, later Minister of Mines in Ian Smith's Rhodesia
• Georgina and Bill Carey, later owners of the farm
• Photo of Bruce at the rock enclosed with the letter

Connected

• Lights and TracksCase fileSame witness

  Both from Bunty's posthumous letter: the 1954/55 night beams and fireball at Nyambuya Farm, and the earlier tyre-tread imprint in granite at the falls that she connected only in hindsight.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 12 (July 1995), spread 06

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