Southern Africa Unexplained

Case · UFO Afrinews No 12, July 1995

Letter from Norbert Kazingizi: red ball over Waterfalls, Harare

1993 · Waterfalls, Harare, Harare southern suburbs: Parktown, Ardbennie, Prospect, Hatfield, Zimbabwe

What was reported

Norbert Kazingizi of Waterfalls, Harare, writes that shortly after 19:00 one evening in August 1993, while the family sat in the dining room, his sister asked what something was; through the lace curtains he saw a bright red ball. Everyone went outside. The object was far off to the east, a few metres above the treetops. It hovered in one spot, moved horizontally toward them, then changed direction and drifted slowly north, watched for over a minute. Something like smoke hung above it but did not disperse as smoke does. He guessed about six metres across and rules out meteorite, helicopter, fire cracker or firework because it hovered, changed direction and travelled under its own power in silence. The morning paper carried nothing, though he expects it was seen over Parktown, Ardbennie, Prospect and Hatfield.

What Hind made of it

Printed as a letter without comment

Explanation offered
Witness rules out meteorite, helicopter, fire cracker and firework

In their words

  • It hovered in one position, then began to move horizontally towards us; it then changed direction

    Norbert Kazingizi, spread 21

Connected

  • Justin's StoryCase fileSame behaviour

    A huge light or red ball just above the treetops in eastern or southern Harare, hovering, moving slowly, changing direction, then gone: Mandara, January 1995, and Waterfalls, August 1993. Both witnesses ruled out aircraft and helicopter themselves.

  • Report from Kurwama Kanengoni (Harare)Case fileSame behaviour

    Slow, silent, glowing object at tree-top height over a Harare suburb, appearing from nowhere and disappearing, approaching to tens of metres: Kanengoni's football shape of April 1998 (crackling) and Kazingizi's red ball of August 1993. Both witnesses first thought of a meteor and rejected it for the low slow flight.

  • Harare, Chisipite: orange pulsating sphere over the shopsCase fileSame behaviour

    An orange or red ball hovering just above suburban rooftops or treetops, drifting, watched from the ground by a family or a stopped crowd for one to ten minutes, then leaving: Chisipite 1974 and Waterfalls 1993. Neither was reported to anyone at the time.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 12 (July 1995), spread 21

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