Case · UFO Afrinews No 14, July 1996
Destruction by a UAP? Tragedy hits African village, Kirimukuyu, Kenya
1954 ยท Kirimukuyu, about 100 miles from Nairobi; Mt Kenya 25 miles away, Kenya
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Richard Heiden of Milwaukee sent Hind a story first printed in Earl Neff's Flying Saucer News, which Neff said he later had the boy retell on a large UAP radio programme. In June 1954 eleven-year-old Laili Thindu, visiting his grandmother about 100 miles from his Nairobi home, was minding her goats and sheep on a slope outside Kirimukuyu with Mt Kenya in view. Twice he saw a brilliant light on the mountain, at first taken for climbers' lamps; it dropped from the crest and swung sharply right across a great distance in moments, and on the third day moved east and changed course. That night, through gaps in his hut, he watched beams from a disc-shaped object sweeping toward a village two miles off where a wedding dance was under way. The drums stopped; next morning dancers, children, animals and sleepers were all found dead. Hind wrote to the Nairobi library and got no answer.
What Hind made of it
She cannot vouch for it, has heard several versions over the years, finds it hard to believe a village would be wiped out without reason, knows no other case of UAPs being so destructive, and jokes she is now trying jungle drums, carrier pigeon and cleft stick to reach Nairobi.
In their words
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I cannot recall a case of UFOs being as destructive as this
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Apparently killed by the deadly rays from a UFO!!
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This time I am trying via a) jungle drums, b) carrier pigeon and as a final resort, c) cleft stick.
Cross references
- Flying Saucer News (Earl Neff, year unknown)