Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 130 · UFO Afrinews No 16, July 1997

Soldier in Distress: the crossgrain patrol abduction and flashbacks

1978 ยท between the Mbizi and Limpopo rivers, bordering between Rutenga and Beit Bridge, south-east Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia), toward the Mozambique border, Zimbabwe

What was reported

Weeks after the wedge sighting, Brown's stick was sent on an unusual crossgrain patrol. Rising from the midday break he found his watch read 16:00. As he shouldered his bergen a flash struck him from a silent metallic ellipse hovering above the trees, which shot away; nobody reacted. Years later diary-logged flashbacks surfaced: a hooded dwarf leading him to a ship in a forest clearing; his glowing double in a blue cloak; a crescent-shaped ward with containers of stacked body parts; a ribbon that drank his blood yet stayed white; a reptilian seizing his throat; acid-like liquid, 'medicine' and immersion in clear liquid; a knife attack that left him whole; a power station where his watch stopped; four 'Guardians' merging into one; an abandoned fish-faced baby beside half a loaf of bread; a floating oriental woman with hooved feet.

What Hind made of it

Hind is convinced Brown is telling the truth: he is terrified, seeks no publicity or money, and kept his diary before meeting UAP literature. She reads the body-parts imagery as a message rather than literal killings, suspects the 'oriental' people were wrap-around-eyed aliens, and suggested hypnosis, which he is not yet ready for.

Explanation offered
Hind wonders whether the TV documentary that triggered his realisation was the INTRUDERS video based on Budd Hopkins' cases

In their words

  • In other words, they found us before we found them.

    David Brown, spread 06

  • I stood up and put on my bergen (backpack) when a flash of light hit me.

    David Brown, spread 06

  • He is truly a soul in torment and is reaching out to others who understand

    Cynthia Hind, spread 10

Cross references

  • 16-05-2 wedge sighting (Case 130, first event)
  • 16-09-2 bedroom abduction (Case 130, later event)
  • 16-07-1 RH reptilian
  • Out of Africa: Cambodia 1971 (this issue, p13)
  • INTRUDERS video (Budd Hopkins)

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 16 (July 1997), spread 05-10

In the archive

This case became a story on this site.

1978 · Zimbabwe

The patrol that stood up at four o'clock

Two RLI sticks sat down for the midday break in the lowveld and stood up at four. One man saw a flash, and nobody said a word, then or ever.

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