Strange Reports from Zambia: German engineer found dazed beside a landing imprint

What was reported

A few days later, on a Saturday in April or May, Henk van der Linden, Dieter Siegerberg of Philips and a third man were driving the hilly Ndola-Kitwe road when they spotted the Opel of a German engineer they knew standing in the bush, door open and engine still warm. Fearing murder or illness, they searched behind the power lines and found him at about 11 o'clock sitting dazed on the ground. He asked whether he was irrational, then explained that around 8 he had seen a big round thing coming down over the road, followed it, walked up to it in a clearing and remembered nothing more, except that he knew its interior and that the silent occupants had made him understand that everything worked on wavelengths. Nearby the men found a large imprint, about 80 feet round, with a broad central base and burn-like marks. He later returned to Germany and never spoke of it again.

What Hind made of it

Henk and Dieter believed the man because he was an engineer and because they measured the marks themselves; Henk found the remark that it all worked on wavelengths interesting.

Explanation offered
Murder or illness considered when the car was found; no mundane explanation for the imprint offered.

In their words

• But tell me, am I an irrational fellow?

• It works on wavelengths

• All works with rays (wavelengths)

Cross references

• Kitwe mast sighting, 13-22-1

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 13 (February 1996), spread 22-23

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