Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 142 · UFO Afrinews No 19, January 1999

Follow up: Zamei of Dar-es-Salaam

1998 ยท Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.

What was reported

Zamei, a 17-year-old diabetic in Dar-es-Salaam whose contact claims appeared in No 18, had asked Hind not to contact him, yet rang Maria Sullivan for her number and then wrote on 5 June 1998 clarifying points. The first contact came from his terrace between 17:00 and 18:00 under cloud; the second visit at 22:15. Both times he had to jump into a hovering craft with no steps; inside it was as bright as a camera flash with no visible source, about 28 to 30 degrees, and 3 to 4 metres long. Voices sounded like two glasses rubbed together; the craft shook when he neared its switches. On the second visit the beings entered his house with a high-frequency sound, ate his mother's glass water jug, threw furniture about and took his parrot. He flew in the craft; afterwards his hair had grown and his blood sugar stabilised.

What Hind made of it

Hind finds the story so bizarre she feels it is hardly one he would dream up, but it is hard to assess from a distance; attempts to have a travel agent's cousin or an Air Tanzania pilot interview him worry her because neither knows ufology. She asks what readers think and promises a report in No 20.

In their words

  • it was the fastest machine I had ever been in.

    Zamei, spread 12

  • I find his story so bizarre, I feel it is hardly one he would dream up.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 12

  • I swear upon the One God that I am not telling you any lies.

    Zamei, spread 13

Cross references

  • UFO Afrinews No 18
  • UFO Afrinews No 20 (promised follow-up, July 1999)

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 19 (January 1999), spread 12-13