Trudie's Story: her husband's schoolboy saucer at Rondebosch

What was reported

The first episode in Trudie's account concerns her husband as a sports-mad schoolboy at St Joseph's in Rondebosch. During a rugby game he glanced up, saw a flying saucer and froze on the field while the others shouted at him to play. He turned to tell them to look up, but when he turned back the object had gone, and the boys teased him about reading too many comics. Trudie later told Pam Puxley this was the only strange thing he would ever talk about, apart from once mentioning that something had happened to him at sea, which he never explained. He read nothing about UAPs and thought the subject nonsense.

What Hind made of it

Part of a family history Pam Puxley will continue to monitor.

In their words

• Look, look up

Cross references

• Case No 143 (other episodes in this issue)

Connected

• Trudie's Story: levitation across the floor, the husband's night terror and paired thigh bruisesCase fileSame witness

  Trudie's family saga (Case 143) spans 18-05-1, 18-06-2, 18-06-3, 18-06-4 and 18-07-1: one family, one investigator, interviews Jan 1997 to Apr 1998.

• Transformer in the SkyCase fileSame place

  Rondebosch schoolboy saucer and the Newlands Ravine encounter are 1.6 km apart below Devil's Peak; Wintle's Mowbray house (16-11-2) is 1.2 km from the school. Southern-suburbs density tracks population, not place.

• Strangers in the GardenCase fileSame behaviour

  Witness looked away to call someone, looked back, gone: Janet (two helmeted figures), Trudie's husband (saucer during rugby).

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 18 (July 1998), spread 5

Nearby

Stories within 60 km

• The transformer on Newlands Ravine 1969 · 3 km
• Van Hunks and the Devil 1909 · 3 km
• The Castle's regulars 1729 · 6 km
• The lights above Table Mountain 2015 · 7 km
• The monoplane that flew all over the Union 1914 · 10 km