Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 7 · UFO Afrinews No 17, February 1998 (cover); masthead printed as January 1998

DU TOIT'S KLOOF CASE (Further Reports on Previous Cases)

1951 · Du Toit's Kloof Pass, Paarl, South Africa

What was reported

Follow-up to a case printed in Nos 2 and 3. Henry, an engineer in Paarl, drove his wife's small French car to the top of Du Toit's Kloof Pass one clear moonlit night at Christmas 1951 to recharge its battery. A distressed man came out of the shadows asking for water; Henry filled a sand-rinsed oil can at a stream and drove him back to where a discoid craft 10-15 m across and 4 m tall stood with a lit opening and ladder. Inside, a circular room held one man lying on a seat and three standing, all about 1.5 m tall, and two rows of four levers through floor slits. The man said there were no engines: the levers annulled gravity and a very heavy fluid, unobtainable on Earth, circulated in a tube creating a magnetic effect. Hind now sets this beside 1997 reports of gyroscope anti-gravity research.

What Hind made of it

Hind suggests Japanese and Russian gyroscope anti-gravity findings lend Henry's 1951 propulsion account unexpected support and asks how he could have invented it; she regrets he died before she could discuss it.

In their words

  • Pointing to the levers, he said that by means of those, gravity was annulled.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 13

  • How now, brown cow?

    Cynthia Hind, spread 13

  • Surely, he could hardly have invented what they told him?

    Cynthia Hind, spread 14

Cross references

  • UFO AFRINEWS No 2, June 1989, pp 24-31
  • UFO AFRINEWS No 3, May 1990, pp 35-42
  • FATE magazine, January 1993
  • Sunday Telegraph, 21 September 1997 (Robert Matthews)

Connected

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 17 (February 1998 (cover); masthead printed as January 1998), spread 13-14

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1951 · South Africa

The engineer and the stranger on Du Toit's Kloof

Near midnight on the pass a stranger asked an engineer for water. He filled an oil can at a spring and, he said, was led into a craft with four men inside.

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