Southern Africa Unexplained

Case · UFO Afrinews No 20, July 1999

Phyllis and Diane abduction, Johannesburg (editorial retelling)

Johannesburg, South Africa

What was reported

Hind returns to the Johannesburg abduction of Phyllis and Diane as the case she found most convincing from an investigator's standpoint. Neither knew abduction literature, yet their memories, recovered gradually and never under hypnosis, kept matching details she knew from cases worldwide. A light overtook their car; next they were being propelled up steps into a craft through a white mist smelling of incense and lemons, which Hind reads as decontamination. The crew never looked up. Both were laid on a flat metal-topped table and examined. An entity called Me-lee-lah pushed a knitting-needle-like instrument beneath Diane's left breast, leaving a small round scar, and calmed her with a hand on the forehead. It asked the name of her haemolytic jaundice, which could not be found afterwards. It had no fingernails, reminding the women of a pet monkey, and its pupils turned to vertical slits. Warned of 72-metre waves, both grew reluctant to return to Earth.

What Hind made of it

Memories were recorded naturally over time, not by hypnosis; Hind argues that if the pair were hoaxing they could not have known the recurring details she recognises from world cases, and that hoaxers always make detectable mistakes.

Explanation offered
Hoax considered and rejected by Hind

In their words

  • What is the name of your condition in your world?

    Me-lee-lah (entity), as reported by Diane, spread 04

  • If Phyllis and Diane were hoaxing, where did they obtain all this information?

    Cynthia Hind, spread 05

Cross references

  • Reported in earlier issue of UFO Afrinews
  • MUFON database of strange factors

Connected

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 20 (July 1999), spread 04-05

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