Case No 101 · UFO Afrinews No 12, July 1995
A Strange Craft
1976 ยท Tobacco farm labour compound, Rhodesia (district not printed), Hartley (now Chegutu), inferred only from the story going to the Hartley News, Zimbabwe
What was reported
IAF, a tobacco farmer in Rhodesia in 1976, found one morning that his normally eager labourers, who were paid daily for a set piece of land, would not work and kept stopping to argue. Called in, they explained that the previous night, cooking outside their huts in the compound, they had seen a very strange craft: long in shape, a blue light shining inside, little windows along the side facing them, and what seemed to be a red light at the back. Some likened it to a cigarette, others to a long steel pipe. The farmer stresses that helicopters and light aircraft passed daily during the war, so the men knew those. They were badly disturbed, slept not at all and talked of nothing else for two days. He argues unschooled people without television could not invent such detail. The Hartley News printed the story without feedback.
What Hind made of it
Unverified; printed for the record
In their words
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Some said it looked like a cigarette; some said it looked like a long steel pipe.
Cross references
- Hartley News