Edwin of Pinetown: the men with police badges and the confiscated radio

What was reported

Edwin, the Pinetown radio contactee whose mentor Carl van Vlierden published messages from the 'Confederation of Twelve Planets', had his own brush with men in black. About 20:30 one night three men in civilian clothes showed police badges and asked to see the radio on which he received 'alien' messages. They took him and the set to a small office where a typist worked, grilled him for two and a half to three hours and warned him not to exchange messages with 'alien' countries as he held no ham licence. Ten days later the police denied all knowledge. Edwin and Carl revisited the building, a condemned block used as temporary offices, and found the room empty with papers strewn as if abandoned in a hurry. The radio was eventually returned, Hind suspects by anonymous truck. In Alien Analysis Hind adds that the entities claimed to come from Koldas and that she attended two broadcasts.

What Hind made of it

Hind offered to pay for legal advice but Edwin and Carl would not make waves; she never got to the bottom of it and suspects the men were human, while not ruling out that MIB might be ETs. She stresses the Koldas origin is only what was 'conveyed' to Carl and Edwin.

Explanation offered
Possibly human officials or impostors rather than anything alien.

In their words

• there is some mystery surrounding this and I have never been able to get to the bottom of it.

• There are dozens of authenticated cases but one never really knows: are they perhaps humans in some form of disguise

• I have a feeling it was delivered to the house by an anonymous truck!

Cross references

• The Twelve Planets Speak by Carl van Vlierden
• UAPs from Planet Koldas by Wendelle Stevens and Carl van Vlierden
• Confederation of Twelve Planets
• planet Koldas

Connected

• Edwin and Valdar of Koldas: The Twelve Planets SpeakCase fileNamed person

  Same Edwin and same mentor Carl van Vlierden; 19-04-2 places him in Pinetown, the others in Durban (Pinetown is a Durban satellite town, so this is an address change, not a different person). The men-with-badges episode is a sub-plot of the Koldas contact, not an independent event.

• Edwin of Durban and the Confederation of Twelve PlanetsCase fileHind follow-up

  Hind attended two Koldas broadcasts in Durban in her early career (18-03-1, 19-04-2), offered to pay for legal advice after the radio was confiscated, and never got to the bottom of it. Her engagement with the case spans roughly 1968 to 1999.

• Pinetown four-witness time discrepancy (cited under Case No 75)Case fileSame place

  Both Pinetown, and they share a default Pinetown coordinate, hence 0.0 km apart in the data. Edwin lived in Pinetown by the time of 19-04-2; there is no evidence he was one of the four Pinetown witnesses in 08-18-3. Coincidence of town only.

• Albert Bender and the three men in black (Gray Barker's book)Case fileHind follow-up

  19-03-3 is outside this cluster: Hind's editorial on Albert Bender's men in black, which she uses to frame Edwin's Pinetown episode as her second reason for doubting the MIB label. Editorial linkage only.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 19 (January 1999), spread 04-05, 13

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