Case · UFO Afrinews No 17, February 1998 (cover); masthead printed as January 1998
Lights in the Sky B (second event): swaying star over a Vryheid farm
1983 ยท farm near Vryheid, Natal, Vryheid, South Africa
What was reported
About three years after the Durban glow the family had moved to a farm near Vryheid in Natal. Around midnight Pauline, lying awake, heard the animals outside growing restless and, through her window, watched what looked like a very large star grow steadily brighter. Her husband, woken to look, was uninterested and went back to sleep, so she roused her son and a friend staying with him; the three sat at the foot of her bed watching. By then the object was larger still and swaying from side to side like a feather drifting to the ground. Suddenly it gathered speed and shot away north toward a mountain range, trailing light like a rocket.
What Hind made of it
Printed as reported.
In their words
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like a feather floating to the ground
Connected
Lights in the Sky B (first event): orange glow over a Durban backyardCase fileSame witness
17-16-1 is outside this cluster (farm near Vryheid, Natal, 1983, ~230 km north). Same Pauline, three years after the Durban glow: a swaying 'star' that shot away north; animals restless again. Pauline is a repeat reporter, which weakens the independence of the animal-reaction detail.