Soldier in Distress: the black wedge on the horizon (first event)

What was reported

The first of David Brown's two wartime events. After a night ambush that cost his stick casualties, Brown was half-carrying the wounded Twiggs to safe ground when he saw a large shape silhouetted against the night horizon off to his left. It was pitch-black with no lights, apparently resting on the ground, wedge-shaped and roughly 50 ft long by 12 ft high, perhaps 50 m away, though he admits size at night in starlight is hard to judge. Twiggs saw it too and was shocked; both were frightened and passed word along the line. At daybreak they reached the pick-up point; back at bush base the Major debriefed Brown in his tent, had him draw the object, then dismissed him and nothing more was said. Brown believes the later crossgrain patrol was sent to find it.

What Hind made of it

Brown feels it was not from this Earth, probably a UAP, and that the later patrol was sent to look for it under the pretext of finding infiltration routes; Hind: whatever it was, it should not have been there.

In their words

• Do you see that object off to the left?

• Oh no! What is it?

• Whatever it was, it should not have been there!

Cross references

• 16-05-1 crossgrain patrol abduction
• 16-09-2 bedroom abduction

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 16 (July 1997), spread 05-06