Case No 106 · UFO Afrinews No 12, July 1995
Whose Face Wore the Smile?
Hotel in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, fourth floor, Johannesburg city centre, South Africa
What was reported
Dave H. was staying on the fourth floor of a hotel in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, when at about 02:00 on a Sunday morning he was woken by a light so bright it came through the thick curtain. Opening it, he saw a tiny man-like creature sitting on the ledge of the balcony; above it hung a saucer-type vehicle giving off a bright light and a low humming sound. When he put his hand forward the creature showed something like a smile. He got within about three feet of it before it hopped back into the vehicle, which was gone in about three seconds. The only people he told were his wife and Elizabeth Klarer. No year is given; since Klarer was consulted it predates her death in 1994.
What Hind made of it
Unverified; printed for the record
In their words
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I put my hand forward and it had a smile-like expression on its face.
Cross references
- Elizabeth Klarer
Connected
Update: tiny creature on a balcony ledge (Dave H., Johannesburg)Case fileHind follow-up
Dave H.'s balcony creature dated via Marie van Staden's supplementary questions to Christmas 1973; nothing else added.
Visited by Air Force OfficersCase fileNamed person
Marie van Staden forwarded both Julie R. (Hellenic Hotel, Pretoria, 1957) and Dave H. (Joubert Park hotel); printed together in No 12 as 'unverified, for the record'.
The 'Crem Alphabet from Reticuli': Fact, Fiction or Fantasy?Case fileNamed person
Elizabeth Klarer: Dave H. confided only in his wife and Klarer; Maria Sullivan wonders if van Greunen's 'Akron' is Klarer's Akon. Klarer is also named in 08-06-1 and cross-referenced in 15-17-1.
Brilliant light outside the window in Johannesburg (Charmaine, second incident)Case fileSame behaviour
Woken at night by a light so bright it came through drawn curtains: Charmaine at fifteen (brown curtains, paralysed, then nothing), Dave H. on a fourth-floor hotel balcony (thick curtain, opened it). Kerry's orange glow at the window (20-08-1) is a third.
One of the Earliest Recorded UAP Cases: Johannesburg 1946Case fileSame place
Delvers Street and a Joubert Park hotel are about 450 m apart, the only two street-level addresses in the cluster; both are a small craft with visible occupants over a central Johannesburg hotel at night, 1946 and 1973.
Source
Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 12 (July 1995), spread 15
Nearby
Stories within 60 km
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- The hospital that closed on Boxing Day 1996 · 22 km
- The egg on Tindall Road 1979 · 23 km
- The morning the police chased a light to Bronkhorstspruit 1996 · 50 km