Case · UFO Afrinews No 19, January 1999
Some New Facts about Elizabeth Klarer: the cairn on Champagne Castle and the stranger who asked for her
1992 · Champagne Castle, Drakensberg, Natal, Harrismith, Orange Free State, named as the nearest sizeable town, South Africa
What was reported
'Doug', interviewed on 18 October 1998, honeymooned in December 1992 at a hotel below Champagne Castle in the Drakensberg and found an unexplained cairn on the plateau above the pine forest. The owners, Connor and Molly O'Hagan-Ward, told him that about six months after they took over, a tall, blond, high-cheekboned stranger speaking unaccented English asked at reception for Elizabeth Klarer, saying he was to meet her there, then walked to the car park and vanished: no car, no motorbike, nobody on the only road out, and Harrismith far away. A week later Klarer arrived with her book and a photograph of a bust of Akon, whom Molly recognised at once. The cairn was Klarer's shrine to Akon, where she once walked to meet him; a second stands on the summit, to which, she said, the SAAF later flew her by helicopter.
What Hind made of it
Hind calls it an incredible story but very much doubts the SAAF involvement: the Air Force never showed real interest in UAPs and parliamentary questions by the Hillbrow MP were met with derision; compassion for an elderly lady seems unlikely to her. In Alien Analysis she recalls Klarer's sincerity about Akon, Meton and her son Ayling, her claim to have lived four months on Meton, and her death in 1996 aged 83.
In their words
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I was supposed to meet her here today.
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Look, I've just had some strange person here looking for a lady called Elizabeth Klarer.
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Elizabeth always said the SAAF was involved but I wondered about it
Cross references
- Beyond the Light Barrier by Elizabeth Klarer
- Radio 702
- planet Meton, Proxima Centauri
- Champagne Castle summit cairn
- Klarer's black car (this issue)
Source
Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 19 (January 1999), spread 13, 16-17
In the archive
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