Case · UFO Afrinews No 17, February 1998 (cover); masthead printed as January 1998
"SMELLY UAP" (follow-up to No 16)
Unknown
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
A short follow-up to a report printed on page 38 of UFO AFRINEWS No 16 under the heading Smelly UAP. No details of the original event are restated. Further investigation, Hind says, turned up two alternatives of the same kind: in Brasil two large blocks of ice believed to be part of a meteor fell in Sao Paulo State, one of about 55 kg crashing through a factory roof in Campinas and a second landing nearby some days later and leaving a small crater, with no passing aircraft to blame; and in April 1995 a piece of meteoric ice fell in China. The implication is that falling ice of meteoric origin may account for the earlier report.
What Hind made of it
Hind offers meteoric ice falls in Brasil and China as alternatives to a UAP origin for the No 16 report.
Explanation offered
Meteoric ice (Campinas, Sao Paulo State, Brasil; China, April 1995)
In their words
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Further investigation on the above report, shows that there are some alternatives
Cross references
- UFO AFRINEWS No 16, p 38