Pilot Sees Light Streak

What was reported

Paul, a pilot, told Hind of a colleague flying from Cape Town to Johannesburg at 30 000 ft for a private airline that has since closed. Cape Town Air Traffic Control radioed that radar showed a blip following his aircraft. He and his navigator kept a close watch but saw nothing. Controllers then said the object was doing Mach 12 and was close behind, and that two objects were now on radar. At that moment the crew saw a streak of light pass them without being able to identify anything. ATC reported both blips had vanished into cloud at Mach 14. Both men had to find new jobs; the pilot is thought to be working in Kenya and could be traced.

What Hind made of it

Hind prints the report as received and promises further information if it comes to hand.

In their words

• Further information on this case will be published if, and when, it comes to hand.

Connected

• Alien Intervention? Coloured lights over the farm near Cape TownCase fileSame window

  Both 1998 and both printed in Afrinews 20; no other link. Weak.

• Blue-green oval over Du Toit's KloofCase fileSame behaviour

  Object approached or paced an aircraft: the 1981 oval shot at right angles toward a night flight and vanished just above it; 1998 radar blips followed an airliner at Mach 12-14. Independent, 17 years apart; the 1998 report is third-hand from an unnamed crew.

Source

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

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