Lights in the Sky F: arrowhead of lights over Chete Gorge, Lake Kariba

What was reported

Adam and Dorothy, with eight other people, South Africans and Zimbabweans, on a chartered houseboat anchored in Chete Gorge on Lake Kariba, saw strange lights over the gorge at about 23:45 on 29 August 1997. Adam described an arrowhead formation, which Maria Sullivan took to suggest a triangle. Dorothy counted seven lights with two larger ones leading, which to her resembled rockets; two others counted five to seven. The lights flew north into Zambia and the whole sighting lasted about 15 seconds. Adam was collecting comments and a drawing from his family in South Africa. Hind notes that witnesses disagreeing on the number of lights is normal at night and at distance, and uses the report to argue that the Stealth bomber cannot explain triangular UAPs that hover.

What Hind made of it

Hind accepts varying light counts as normal and rejects the reflex Stealth-bomber explanation for triangular objects; awaiting drawings.

Explanation offered
Stealth Bomber (raised and rejected)

In their words

• The fact that the number of lights varied from one witness to another is not uncommon

• The objects flew north into Zambia.

Cross references

• Mana Pools sighting same night (this issue)
• Belgian UAP wave 1990s
• Ballarat, Australia, 18 February 1992 report (Paul Norman; this issue)
• Aurora secret aircraft

Source

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