A Child Recalls

What was reported

Elmo C. recalls that around 1945 to 1947, when he was eight or nine, he and a playmate were beside the road about 100 metres from his Ladybrand home when a strange object came toward them. It descended slowly and without any rumble, so they were not frightened, and hung overhead at what he guesses was 30 metres, admitting that children judge height poorly. Its dull silver body looked like the front part of a helicopter but had no tail or rotor blades. It stayed there doing nothing, and the boys could make out someone inside. They watched for quite a while and, being boys, threw stones at it, which fell just short. First of the Marie van Staden reports, printed unverified.

What Hind made of it

Unverified; Hind prints the Marie van Staden reports as records for further research

In their words

• It just hung there, doing nothing, but we could see someone inside.

Cross references

• The Marie van Staden Reports

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 12 (July 1995), spread 11

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