Case No 142 · UFO Afrinews No 18, July 1998
Down in Dar-es-Salaam
1998 ยท Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Zamei rang Hind at 2 a.m. on 9 January 1998 after first reaching Don Berliner of the Fund for UFO Research. He said that late on 3 January, from his terrace, he saw a large triangular craft landed or landing beside the house. Two beings in flowing Arab-style robes, faces hidden, walked past; when he called out they made a sound like two glasses rubbed together and left. He entered the craft, hovering slightly off the ground: a bare room lit by white light through the walls, switches at the far end. On 12 January beings with a single central eye, tiny mouths, brown skin like unpolished rock entered the house, shoved furniture, swallowed a jug and glass whole, took his parrot and flew him above the clouds; his freshly cut hair regrew, they feared a lighter flame, and later stood on the roof by the water tanks. Fourteen photographs were blank. On 26 January he asked not to be contacted again.
What Hind made of it
Extremely strange; Hind treated a hoax as a serious alternative yet asks why a hoaxer would invent such bizarre material; a relative of an Air Tanzania contact was to interview him and a report is awaited for the next issue.
Explanation offered
hoax by the boy; the unrecorded phone calls and Tanzania's supposedly up-to-date accounting were seen as controversial points
In their words
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My parents do not believe in UFOs because our religion does not accept them.
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Their mouths enclosed the glass, like creeping up over it and when they covered it all, they must have swallowed it.
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But if he was hoaxing, why such bizarre material?
Cross references
- Fund for UFO Research (Don Berliner)