Ball of white light settles on the car roof, 1984 (within Case 121)

What was reported

Johnny recalls a night in 1984, aged nineteen, when he and a worker tracked a wounded eland by full moon into the neighbouring farm, leaving the truck inside their own fence and walking about a kilometre through msasa trees. Returning to the fence they saw a ball of white light, roughly a metre across and very bright, drop from a tree and sink slowly onto the roof of the vehicle while he stared at it. He offers it, with the red lights seen from a donkey cart, as evidence that odd lights are familiar on the farm, suggesting they may be harmless gas balls, unlike the humming 'car' of February 1996.

What Hind made of it

Recorded as background to Case 121; Hind's team asked about granite on the farm (none, only small conglomerate outcrops), apparently probing an earth-lights explanation.

Explanation offered
witness suggests gas balls

In their words

• It was about one metre in diameter and really bright.

Cross references

• Case 121 Featherstone (15-05-1)

Connected

• UAP or 'Phantom' Car at Featherstone?Case fileSame witness

  Johnny Petersen's own 1984 memory of a metre-wide white ball dropping from a tree onto the truck roof, offered as evidence that odd lights are familiar on the farm; Hind's team asked about granite (none).

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 15 (January 1997), spread 07

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