A Zambian Experience: the silent bullet-shaped object of 1968

What was reported

Dimitri, of Greek parentage, moved with his family from Tanzania to Zambia in 1967 and farmed tobacco in the southern province. In May or June 1968 he set out for the Lusaka auction floors at 03:00 under a full moon with his father and his father's wife. Stopping for coffee between 03:30 and 04:00 they noticed an unnatural quiet: no crickets, no rustling trees, no animals, no wind. Looking at the moon they took a moving point for an American rocket, possibly Apollo 10, until it was suddenly close, under 1.5 km away. It was bullet-shaped, a little larger than a Boeing 747, silver in the moonlight, with no lights, wings, tail, trail or protrusions, and utterly silent, drifting east to west slower than a jet. They watched it for some time, discussed the 'rocket' on the road, and never mentioned it again after reaching Lusaka.

What Hind made of it

From what she knows of Dimitri through his letters Hind finds it difficult to push his case aside, but asks whether it is an ongoing experience or imaginative stretching; she will monitor it.

Explanation offered
The witnesses first took it for a US space rocket on its way to the moon.

In their words

• It was unusually quiet. There was no chirping of crickets, no sound of trees rustling or nocturnal animals moving around, and no wind.

• The object was bullet-shaped and a bit taller and longer than a Boeing 747.

• There was also no sound or noise, nothing at all. Just silence.

Cross references

• Apollo 10
• Case No 145 night visitations (this issue)

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 19 (January 1999), spread 05-06