Case No 103 · UFO Afrinews No 13, February 1996
Update: green-lit object between Wepener and Bethulie
1983 ยท road between Wepener and Bethulie, Bethulie, Free State, South Africa
What was reported
The original report in issue 12 dated this sighting to 1981. Marie van Staden has now traced the newspaper cutting, which shows that the Afrikaans daily Volksblad printed the story on 27 April 1983; Hind stresses this is the date of publication, not of the event. The witnesses were apparently travelling between Wepener and Bethulie, not Springfontein as first stated, at 05:15 in the early morning when they saw an object bearing three bright green lights and red stripes, which flashed at them. The correction adjusts the year and the route but adds nothing further about what the object did.
What Hind made of it
Correction of the year and the road; the newspaper date is not the event date.
Cross references
- UFO Afrinews No 12 (July 1995), Case No 103
- Volksblad, 27 April 1983