Case No 131 · UFO Afrinews No 16, July 1997
What Goes There? (Karoi)
tobacco farm in the Karoi area, Karoi, Zimbabwe
What was reported
Eleven-year-old Jimmy and his father set off in the family Jeep after an early supper for a winter evening's small-game hunt. In full darkness a brilliant pure white light suddenly lit the tobacco barns, fields and trees as bright as day, yet without colour or shadow, so everything looked silver. A craft came from behind them and passed over the Jeep in a straight line heading north-west. Craning under the canvas canopy, Jimmy saw an enormous round machine about 15 m across, its rim ringed with alternating red and green lights, an inner ring of yellow lights that seemed to spin, and a centre that was a black void. A blue tail flame pulsed once a second, dimming the lights as it flared. It was gone into the distance within seven seconds. The hunt was abandoned and they hurried home to tell Mrs Green.
What Hind made of it
Presented without comment beyond that father and son were stunned and knew it was nothing from Earth.
In their words
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the light did not portray colours, but it was pure white, so that everything appeared silver in its brilliance, with no shadows
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Jimmy and his father were stunned!