Lesotho crash claim: Hesemann confirms no proof

What was reported

Within 'Visitors to Africa' Hind reports that German investigator Michael Hesemann used his March 1997 visit to check the alleged UAP crash in Lesotho. He confirmed what the editors had already established: there was no proof that any of the people named in the Leribe documents existed. The editors also gave him evidence that the Colonel and General cited in the papers are not members of South African Intelligence. Hind adds that a battalion of soldiers could not possibly have been flown to Leribe in the time van Greunen's documents allow, unless, she remarks drily, they were using spacecraft. The year of the alleged crash is not printed here.

What Hind made of it

The claim is unsupported: named people cannot be found, the officers are not intelligence personnel, and the timeline is impossible.

Explanation offered
Fabrication by the document's author

In their words

• there was no proof of the existence of any of the people mentioned in Leribe, Lesotho

• Unless, of course, they were using spacecraft!

Cross references

• UFO Afrinews No 14, July 1996

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 16 (July 1997), spread 21-22

In the archive

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1996 · Lesotho

The Leribe documents

A brown envelope said a disc had come down on a Lesotho farm and been carted off by Pretoria before dawn. A week of phone calls found nobody in it.

Press report