Danie van Graan of Loxton: the glass 'jewel' and the sheep that walked around the circle

What was reported

Hind returns to her Loxton case to illustrate two recurring features. Straight after his 1972 close encounter, van Graan picked up what he took for a jewel from the ground beneath where the craft had been; it proved to be sand fused into glass by the heat, with bits of grass and grit trapped inside. The craft had rested in his sheep kraal while the flock was out. When the sheep were later penned and his dog drove them from one end of the enclosure to the other, van Graan showed Hind how they parted and skirted the spot where the craft had stood, never treading on that circle. Hind connects this directly to the Featherstone sheep of 1996.

What Hind made of it

Cited as a verified landing-trace case that parallels the Featherstone report and shows heat at landing sites.

In their words

• they divided and walked around where the craft had stood, but never over that particular circle of ground.

Cross references

• Featherstone, Zimbabwe 1996 (14-03-1)

Connected

• The Click Sound: Danie van Graan at LoxtonCase fileSame witness

  14-03-2 dates the same encounter to 1972, the only date in the cluster that disagrees with 31 July 1975, which eight other records give. Almost certainly a slip, but it is an internal contradiction in the archive.

• Danie van Graan and the caravan without wheels, LoxtonCase fileSame place

  The sheep kraal: fused sand picked up as a 'jewel' and sheep parting to skirt the circle in one, five tine marks and grey-green granules in the other. Same enclosure, same investigation.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 14 (July 1996), spread 03-04

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