Southern Africa Unexplained

Case · UFO Afrinews No 15, January 1997

An Appeal: landing or hovering object on the Lilfordia School Road

1996 · Lilfordia School Road, turning off the Old Bulawayo Road, Harare, Zimbabwe

What was reported

Hind appeals for help tracing an unnamed African farmer-businessman who buys beans and other vegetables from farms along the Lilfordia School Road, off the Old Bulawayo Road, and trucks them to town vendors. Between 19:30 and 20:00 on 20 October 1996 he witnessed something that landed or hovered over an open field with a large burnt log at its centre, close to a windmill just off the road. Seeing another car nearby, slightly disabled, with a white man watching the same thing, he ran to him and urged him to leave as fast as he could, then fled himself. Hind stresses that speaking to this man is important and asks readers for any clue to his identity.

What Hind made of it

Hind considers it important and asks readers to help track the witness down.

In their words

  • something which landed or hovered on an open field with a large burnt log in its centre

    Cynthia Hind, spread 16

  • It is important; PLEASE HELP.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 16

Cross references

  • Old Bulawayo Road

Connected

  • Lilfordia Road LandingCase fileHind follow-up

    The appeal in No 15 to trace an African farmer-businessman who saw something land near a windmill on the Lilfordia School Road on Sunday 20 October 1996 becomes Paul's account in No 16: the same burnt log, the same second car and the farmer who ran over shouting. The informant withdrew because her husband thought it demonic; the farmer was never found. Geocoded at the Harare placeholder although the site is on the Old Bulawayo Road well west of the city.

Source

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

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