Case · UFO Afrinews No 18, July 1998
The Foul Smelling UAP: a reader's explanation (letter from H. Beck)
not printed (earlier issue), Unknown
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
H. Beck of Switzerland writes about the Smelly UAP case from an earlier issue. He agrees with Hind's own suspicion that the foul-smelling object was frozen blue disinfectant dropped from an aircraft toilet. He argues against the alternative of space 'snowballs' bombarding the Earth, since they enter the atmosphere at 20 to 60 km per second and burn up long before reaching the ground. Stony meteorites can smell of hydrogen sulphide when picked up soon after falling, but snowballs contain dust and hardly any sulphur, so would not give off a pungent odour.
What Hind made of it
Hind had felt sure it was aircraft toilet waste; Beck concurs.
Explanation offered
frozen blue disinfectant from an aeroplane toilet; space snowballs and meteorites ruled out
In their words
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the frozen blue disinfectant from an air plane toilet
Cross references
- Smelly UAP case in an earlier UFO AFRINEWS issue
- Mr Tanner's theory in an earlier UFO AFRINEWS issue