Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 130 · UFO Afrinews No 19, January 1999

David Brown of the RLI: the hooded dwarf and his double

1978 ยท between the Mbizi and Limpopo Rivers, southern Zimbabwe, Limpopo border, Zimbabwe

What was reported

Case 130 from No 16 is recalled for its cloning theme. David Brown, serving with the Rhodesian Light Infantry, was on patrol between the Mbizi and Limpopo Rivers in early 1978. At about 16:00, as the men stood up after a rest and he was shouldering his bergen, a dwarf in a cloak and hood approached him. He could not see its face, but it led him into the forest to show him something, where he found himself facing his double, in effect a clone of himself. Hind notes the expression has become familiar in modern reports and links it to a Puerto Rican abductee shown a baby she recognised as herself.

What Hind made of it

Hind presents it as evidence that cloning is a recurring theme and wonders whether witnesses are being shown the future or something more sinister.

In their words

  • I was putting my bergen on when I was approached by a dwarf in cloak and hood.

    David Brown, spread 14

Cross references

  • UFO Afrinews No 16, Case No 130
  • Puerto Rican clone baby (this issue)

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 19 (January 1999), spread 14