Case · UFO Afrinews No 13, February 1996
Intelligent Light Balls? (a) Miss I.M., Epukiro area
1985 · Epukiro area, Kalahari, eastern Namibia, Namibia
What was reported
Roland Roeis records the account of a 28-year-old analytical chemist, a strict Bible believer who rejected any notion of extraterrestrial life, who spent weekends at her fiancé's farm in the Epukiro district. One Monday in the mid-1980s she came back shaken and unwilling to talk. On the Saturday night, driving home from a neighbour's barbecue, she had dozed off and was jolted awake when her fiancé braked. He sat silently pointing at a bluish-white ball of light some 300 metres ahead, the size of a heavy motorcycle's headlamp and very bright against a calm, moonless, starry sky. It drifted slowly over the veld at two to three metres, hugging the contours, for about ten minutes before vanishing. Her fiancé said it was about his second sighting and that local farmers, who see it often, call it the ghost of the Kalahari.
What Hind made of it
Miss I.M. still rejects ETs and insists on a scientific explanation; Roeis writes that he too feels sure there is one.
Explanation offered
Local farmers regard it as a familiar phenomenon, 'die spook van die Kalahari'.
In their words
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die spook van die Kalahari
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there must be an acceptable scientific explanation for the phenomenon, and we feel sure there is.
Cross references
- Miscellaneous Namibian light-ball reports, spread 13 (printed p. 20)
Source
Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 13 (February 1996), spread 12-13
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