Case No 105 · UFO Afrinews No 12, July 1995
Gone Missing?
1994 ยท Between Witbank and Middelburg, Mpumalanga (Witbank is now eMalahleni), South Africa
What was reported
Elio reports that in March 1994, while fishing with his friend Otto between Witbank and Middelburg under a clear sky, they saw at some distance an enormous silver craft climbing vertically at great speed and leaving a white trail behind it. Otto was badly frightened. When they later tried to describe it to others they got strange remarks, but Otto could not stop talking about it. A couple of weeks after the incident Otto disappeared and Elio never saw him again. Marie van Staden, who forwarded the report, says she has not checked whether anyone of that name was ever reported missing. Hind's heading poses the disappearance as a question rather than a claim.
What Hind made of it
Marie van Staden has not checked whether Otto was ever reported missing; Hind headlines it with a question mark
In their words
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a couple of weeks after the incident he disappeared and I just never saw him again.