Case No 117 · UFO Afrinews No 14, July 1996
UAP in the Fields of Afram Plains, Ghana
1990 ยท Afram Plains, Eastern Region, Jumyani (School of Forestry), Ghana
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
CUFOS forwarded this letter in October 1991. Hind wrote to Thomas Agyekum of the School of Forestry three times between October 1991 and January 1992 and asked Fortean Times' roving reporter Ion Wills, in Ghana in September 1992, to find him; nobody answered, so the report is printed unverified. In February 1990 a forestry student and his semi-literate younger sister were planting maize in a remote field when a silver, aircraft-like object, far too slender to carry anyone, swooped low as if picking out a target, veered downhill and seemed to land. As they approached it shot skyward at a speed the writer had never seen. At the spot lay a large cross-shaped mark in dark powder, which they feared to touch. After a night of rain the powder was gone and all plants within about five metres had shrivelled as though poisoned.
What Hind made of it
Given in good faith but cannot be confirmed; repeated attempts to reach the Ghanaian contact failed.
In their words
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everything within about five metres radius had withered as if sprayed with insecticide
Cross references
- CUFOS request, October 1991
- Fortean Times (Ion Wills)
- Later Afram Plains sightings by the same family (14-12-3)