Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 108 · UFO Afrinews No 12, July 1995

Transformer in the Sky: prelude over Constantia Nek

1969 · Waldorf School playing field, Constantia, looking toward Constantia Nek, Cape Town; Twelve Apostles, South Africa

What was reported

As a prelude to his transformer account, Stewart Bloch recalls that in February 1969 he and school friend John Dillon were on the Waldorf School playing field in Constantia when they noticed a glinting object about 300 metres above the mountain toward Constantia Nek. On a clear sunny day it moved fairly slowly toward Cape Town and disappeared at an angle over the Twelve Apostles. The distance was too great for any detail and the boys dismissed it as weather-measuring equipment. Two months later Bloch had his close encounter on Table Mountain during the bush fire, and this earlier sighting is printed as the opening of the same case as told to Pam Puxley.

What Hind made of it

Included within Case 108 without separate comment

Explanation offered
Dismissed by the boys as weather-measuring equipment

Cross references

  • 12-18-2 Transformer in the Sky

Connected

  • Transformer in the SkyCase fileSame witness

    Bloch's Feb 1969 distant glint (dismissed by the boys as weather gear) is printed as prelude to his Apr/May 1969 Newlands Ravine encounter; same window, two months apart, one witness.

  • Grant and Alzanne at Clifton, CapeCase fileSame place

    Twelve Apostles/Llandudno skyline; 1969 daylight glint vs 1992 night light over the mountains near Llandudno.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 12 (July 1995), spread 18

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