Obituary: Henry of 'The Alien and the Engineer' (follow-up)

What was reported

Hind records that Henry, sole witness in her earlier story 'The Alien and the Engineer', died on 15 October 1996 after a period of heart trouble; she learned of it only through an announcement from his Spanish-speaking wife. Chief Engineer of a firm in the Paarl area, he insisted on anonymity. He questioned his encounter to the end and never wholly accepted it, even though on returning to the Drakenstein site the next day he found marks where the craft had stood. Elsewhere in this issue Hind recalls that when he asked the occupants where they came from, the man in the craft merely pointed through a porthole at the stars. She remembers him as kindly and analytical.

What Hind made of it

Hind regrets not seeing more of him; she notes that as an engineer he found the experience too difficult to accept, and bids him farewell.

In their words

• Farewell, Henry; I'm sure you now know all the answers.

• the man [in the craft] pointed through the port-hole to the stars.

Cross references

• 'The Alien and the Engineer' (earlier UFO Afrinews story)
• Case 127 commentary on evasive origins (spread 18)
• Drakenstein Mountain Pass, listed in the UAPs Affecting Africa blurb (spread 23)

Connected

• CE III in the Drakenstein Mountains above PaarlCase fileHind follow-up

  Obituary: Henry died 15 Oct 1996 still doubting his own experience.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 15 (January 1997), spread 21

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