Intelligent Light Balls? (c) Prof. B.H.J. and others, Namib Desert

What was reported

On 28 June 1994 at about 20:00 Prof. B.H.J., Mr C.L. and three British exchange students climbed a small kopje near their camp close to the Blutkuppe in the central Namib, roughly 30 km from the Escarpment. Looking east across the plain as the sky lightened before moonrise, Mr C.L. picked out a very bright white light with a yellowish tinge, like a distant car headlamp, moving in a slow undulating way as though following the ground. At times it showed above the Escarpment's outline, implying it flew far higher than the three to five metres usually reported, which Roeis says rules out a vehicle or poacher's lamp in country barely passable even by four-wheel drive. It seemed to approach and then withdraw. After 20 to 30 minutes, with the moon half risen, the party climbed down. Mr C.L. later put a letter in a Windhoek daily inviting reports.

What Hind made of it

Roeis argues the height above the Escarpment excludes a motorcar or poacher; the desert there is not the flat sandy plain often assumed.

Explanation offered
Motorcar or terrestrial vehicle, or a poacher with a bright light; both excluded by Roeis.

In their words

• looked like the bright light of a motorcar seen in the distance

• it excludes a motorcar or any terrestrial vehicle being involved

Cross references

• letter by Mr C.L. in a Windhoek daily
• Gaub Pass and Sesriem Canyon, Easter 1973, 13-13-6

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 13 (February 1996), spread 13

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