LITS: the squarish light over the Harare camping site

What was reported

Di Cammack reports a ten-second sighting by three teachers camping at the Harare Municipal site at about 21:00 on around 11 December 1993, after a dinner with some wine and with their small children asleep in the tent. Rod first saw a light approaching slowly from the north-north-east and took it for a V-formation of geese. It was bluey-grey or silvery blue, squarish with a central oval feature; Sally saw two hazy oblong shapes with pulsating bluish lights in the middle, and all felt there was separate movement or blinking within it. It then left to the north-west faster than anything they had seen, trailing behind it. Sally and Rod had lived under the Heathrow flight path and were sure it was no aircraft; it showed no red or green lights.

What Hind made of it

Explanation offered
flock of geese in V-formation considered at first; aircraft rejected by experienced plane-spotters

In their words

• It came towards them slowly from the NNE and then moved off to the NW very rapidly.

• as it moved off it moved more rapidly than anything they had seen before

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 18 (July 1998), spread 17

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