Round Light of Large Proportions

What was reported

Walking home alone to Makororo Farm at 21:30 on a still, partly cloudy night, Marx Machikiza took an alternative route and, after about 5 km near the Kariba power pylons at Masamba, a gold panners' settlement, became aware of a large bright white light, round like a ball and roughly ten metres across, bigger than a car. He stopped dead and watched it move just above tree height, its glow lighting the bushes and thorn trees clearly. It rose slowly at first, then, as if it had noticed him, shot upward at incredible speed like a shooting star, shrinking to nothing towards the south-south-west. There was no sound and no smell. He ran the remaining 5 km home, arriving at his normal time of 21:55, and half hoped it would return, having read that UAPs take people away.

What Hind made of it

Hind records his precise location for the file, notes he ran the last 5 km looking for its return, and that there was no missing time.

In their words

• it suddenly shot up at an incredible speed, like a shooting star.

• There was no sound or recognizable smell.

Cross references

• Kariba electricity pylons on the north side of Masamba
• Mubayamhondoro thorn trees

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 15 (January 1997), spread 16