Blue Disc Paces Car

What was reported

Dick and Joan Godfrey, then farming at Marondera, set off for Durban at the end of May 1956 and left Kadoma for KweKwe as dusk fell on a cold, clear, moonlit night. Near a notorious railway crossing a light came up from behind, turned a soft brilliant blue, outshone their headlamps and kept pace with the car, about 50 metres up and 15 metres off the road, in total silence. Dick judged it an upright disc or sphere roughly two metres across. When he stopped, it stopped, then jumped instantly to new positions ahead and beside them. He got out, waved and shouted; it moved off, lit an entire farm a mile away within two seconds, shot from low to high, zigzagged, stretched into an orange-tailed teardrop and streaked over hills 80 km away in three or four seconds before diving down. No smell, heat or engine effects; about five minutes.

What Hind made of it

Printed at length as the Godfreys' own account without editorial comment; Dick likens the jumps to a transference of matter from place to place and notes people he has told over the years look at him as if he were off beam.

Explanation offered
Dick briefly considered the full moon but rejected it because the shadows moved and the light was blue and non-electrical.

In their words

• That thing is pacing us!

• Take me to your Leader!

• There was no sound, so we looked around to find out where this terribly bright light was coming from.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 13 (February 1996), spread 14-15