Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 133 · UFO Afrinews No 19, January 1999

Follow up: Stuart of Mutare

1988 · Florida, Mutare, Mutare, on the Mozambique border, Zimbabwe

What was reported

Hind and Maria Sullivan drove 260 km to Mutare on 17 September 1998 to see Stuart, whose case appeared in No 17. He looked fit; the suppuration from his ear had stopped, leaving an irritating itch, and an ENT specialist in Harare has agreed to examine him. The Central Medical Registry does not keep old films, so there is still no way to confirm that the rib now missing, cut clean near the spine, was once present; neither his old doctor, Baroness Von Furstenberg, nor his present one, Dr Sidile, recalls it, and a third doctor is being traced. The house on Huxley Close where the young girl involved lived in 1988 stood deserted. Stuart believes the ear itch forecasts mostly tragic events, and recalls the craft's whining as it passed over and the intense silence while he watched it.

What Hind made of it

Hind thinks the itch-as-omen is probably coincidence, doubts a missing rib would have escaped his doctors, and feels there is much more to the case than uncovered, but patience is needed.

In their words

  • I think there is a lot more to this case than we have yet uncovered, but one has to be patient with UFO stories.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 12

  • For 50 years we feel we have known of their existence and yet, no-one has yet produced an identified 'alien', nor the actual spacecraft.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 12

  • if Stuart was in a form of suspended animation, I don't see how she could help us.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 11

Cross references

  • UFO Afrinews No 17
  • Huxley Close, Hospital Hill, Mutare

Connected

  • CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN MUTARECase fileHind follow-up

    Hind and Maria Sullivan drove 260 km from Harare to Mutare on 17 Sep 1998 to see Stuart: ear suppuration stopped, no old X-rays at the Central Medical Registry, doctors do not recall the rib, the girl's house on Huxley Close deserted. Note 17-05-1's coordinates are the Feruka refinery (the object's stated heading), not Hospital Hill where the event happened; 19-11-1 (Florida suburb) is nearer the true site.

  • Blue light with flaming tail over Old Mutare (Maria Sullivan)Case fileNamed person

    Maria Sullivan is the witness in 08-18-1 (visiting her daughter at Old Mutare, Easter 1993) and Hind's companion on the 1998 Mutare field trip in 19-11-1. Shows that Hind's Harare circle had a family foothold in the Mutare area, a reporting channel rather than a phenomenon link.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 19 (January 1999), spread 11-12

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