Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 96 · UFO Afrinews No 12, July 1995

Mrs Stevens' orange glow over the chicken house

1994 · Farm close to Ariel School, Ruwa, about 20 km from Harare, Zimbabwe

What was reported

Mrs Stevens, whose farm lies close to Ariel School, told Hind that in the early hours of the same day as the children's sighting she got up to go to the bathroom and saw from her window a huge orange glow hanging over her chicken house, like a big round ball. She had never seen anything like it and hurried to fetch her husband, but by the time he came it had gone. Hind prints the account within the Ariel follow-up as a possible precursor to the daytime encounter. Mrs Stevens also figures in the children's testimony: one boy first took the small black-clad figure for her gardener until he noticed its long straight hair.

What Hind made of it

Printed as part of the Ariel record without comment

In their words

  • It was like a big round ball. She had never seen anything like it before

    Cynthia Hind reporting Mrs Stevens, spread 09

Cross references

  • Case No 96 Ariel School
  • 12-06-1

Connected

  • The Children of Ariel SchoolCase fileSame window

    Mrs Stevens, on the farm beside the school, saw a huge orange ball over her chicken house in the early hours of 16 September 1994. Printed as a possible precursor; gone before her husband arrived, so single-witness.

  • Ariel School Report (cont.)Case fileNamed person

    Mrs Stevens appears in both: one boy first took the black-clad figure for her gardener until he noticed its long straight hair, and she separately reported the pre-dawn orange glow.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 12 (July 1995), spread 09

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