Case No 143 · UFO Afrinews No 18, July 1998
Trudie's Story: blinding lights and an ice-cold engine on the Namaqualand road
road from Port Nolloth to Cape Town, Namaqualand, Port Nolloth, South Africa
What was reported
Returning to Cape Town from Port Nolloth in a diesel vanette, with Trudie dozing and the three children in the back, her husband, a top-notch driver, suddenly yelled that they were about to have a head-on collision. Half asleep, she was blinded by huge lights like the headlamps of a Namaqualand Mack truck and thought they would all die. Her next awareness was of waking at the roadside: no accident, no truck, no brake marks. The engine would not start, the tape deck had switched itself off with the tape chewed, and the engine was ice-cold, implying a stop of at least half an hour, though neither wore a watch. When the car finally started, they drove on and told nobody.
What Hind made of it
Hind finds Trudie credible and counts this among the events she cannot explain; Pam Puxley will monitor the case.
In their words
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My God, Trudie, pray, because we're going to have a head-on collision!
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"This is weird", he said, "the car is ice-cold."
Cross references
- Case No 143