Case · UFO Afrinews No 17, February 1998 (cover); masthead printed as January 1998
Danie van Graan, Loxton, 31 July 1975 (radiation effects recap)
1975 · Loxton, Karoo, South Africa
What was reported
Recapped under Radiation Effects. On 31 July 1975 Danie van Graan of Loxton in the Karoo came within about five metres of a craft that had settled in his sheep kraal. Four entities inside spotted him and directed a beam of light at him, leaving him violently ill; he likened it to drowning. Struggling out of the beam he was nauseous and his nose bled. He died on 4 January 1981 riddled with cancer. Elsewhere in the article Hind recalls his account of a buzzing like bees and a single click at the moment the beam struck. She calls this the only African case she has handled with so harmful an outcome.
What Hind made of it
The only African case she has been involved in with such a deleterious effect, though many exist worldwide; documented fully in UFOs-African Encounters.
In their words
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I felt as though I was drowning
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This is the only case in Africa in which I have been involved where such a deleterious effect has occurred
Cross references
- UFOs-AFRICAN ENCOUNTERS pp 1-20
Connected
The Click Sound: Danie van Graan at LoxtonCase fileSame witness
Both give 31 July 1975, the click and the beam. They disagree on range: 07-11-1 puts van Graan about three metres from the craft when the occupants looked up, 17-10-3 about five.
Danie van Graan and the caravan without wheels, LoxtonCase fileHind follow-up
Contradiction on the medical outcome: 17-10-3 gives death from cancer on 4 January 1981, five and a half years after the encounter; 21-03-1 says he died 'within a year or two'.
Danie van Graan of Loxton: four pale people in a 'caravan'Case fileSame window
The only two records that print the full date 31 July 1975 in the summary itself; both are recaps in later issues rather than fresh reporting.
Danie van Graan at Loxton (editorial recap, slow motion)Case fileSame witness
Same encounter; 16-03-1 is the slow-motion recap, 17-10-3 the radiation-effects recap. Neither adds a second observer.
Danie van Graan, Loxton: the two-metre dead circleCase fileHind follow-up
Hind's two 'this case is exceptional' claims, seven issues apart: evidence beyond dispute yet impossible to prove, and the only African case she handled with so harmful an outcome. Both rest on the same single event.
Source
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