Rosmead burnt leaves (editorial recollection)

What was reported

In her editorial on investigative method Hind looks back at the 1975 Rosmead case. She collected scorched leaves from the two trees that had been affected beside the primary school tennis court and took them to the relevant department at the University of Zimbabwe. The analysis satisfied her, scientifically, that the foliage had been exposed to intense heat although there had been no fire, and the other trees around the court were untouched. She offers this as the kind of physical evidence that lets an investigator know something real happened even when its nature stays unexplained, alongside her usual kit of site visits, height calculations, broken branches, ground marks, residues, Gunter Hofer's Geiger counter and sterile soil samples.

What Hind made of it

Scientific analysis proved the leaves had been subjected to intense heat with no fire present, so something physically happened there.

In their words

• they had been subjected to intense heat, where there had been no fires

Cross references

• Rosmead Case 1975 (earlier issues)
• University of Zimbabwe analysis

Connected

• Rosmead tennis court: physical trace caseCase fileHind follow-up

  Issue 20 (July 1999) recalls 'the 1975 Rosmead case' and the scorched leaves taken to the University of Zimbabwe. Direct conflict with 01-05-1 and 21-04-1, which both date the event to 12 November 1972. Loxton/van Graan, the other Karoo trace case Hind constantly pairs with Rosmead, is dated 1975 across nine records; the 1975 here is most likely contamination from it (and 14-03-2 in turn dates Loxton to 1972, so the two dates appear to have swapped).

• Rosmead tennis court landing and the vanished stone (Final Comment)Case fileSame place

  Identical coordinates (-31.4939, 25.0067), also 10.7 km west of the real site. 03-03-2 is worse still, at -31.5833, 25.05, which is 12.4 km south of Rosmead and near nothing in the record. The cluster's 9 km radius and its centroid at -31.5, 25.053 are produced entirely by this geocoding scatter over a single point event.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 20 (July 1999), spread 03

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