Editor's note: family on the Harare to South Africa road, sleep, a light and a fatal crash

What was reported

Hind appends a case just handed to her: a family driving from Harare to South Africa stopped for a break and the wife took over the wheel, with her five-year-old son holding the baby's carrycot and her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter beside her in the front. Both children, though well rested, said they felt sleepy and dropped off at once. Then a bright light came straight at her; she swerved sharply left, over-corrected, and the truck overturned. The baby was thrown clear but both children were killed. Coming round, she kept asking what had happened to the light. Everyone else in the vehicle, her husband included, had been asleep while she was wide awake. Hind notes that Afrinews has had many similar reports from around southern Africa.

What Hind made of it

Hind stresses that everyone but the driver was asleep and that Afrinews has received many reports of this kind from various areas of southern Africa.

In their words

• What happened to the light? Where is the light?

• We did get many reports of this from various areas in southern Africa.

Cross references

• Cynthia Luce's friend's car sleepiness case (15-19-2)

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 15 (January 1997), spread 19-20

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