Flashing Lights: Fort Rixon

What was reported

Visiting her son's farm in the Greystone area on a very warm, clear night, Mrs Connie Cloete and three companions came to a rise in the road with a wide view of the sky. Her sister Cathy pointed to what looked like an aircraft, and they then noticed seven smaller objects leaving the big one in different directions, blinking on and off like fireflies. The large object stayed still to the east, showing a flashing blue light and a revolving red one on top. There was no sound, and the dark made shapes and distances impossible to judge. From 20:50 they watched the small lights scatter while the large one held its place, then went home.

What Hind made of it

Explanation offered
Initially taken for an aircraft

In their words

• almost like fireflies flashing

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 14 (July 1996), spread 11