Southern Africa Unexplained

Case · UFO Afrinews No 20, July 1999

Those I Have Known: Elizabeth Klarer

1957 · Hills near her sister's farm, Drakensberg Mountains, Durban, South Africa

What was reported

Hind recalls calling on Elizabeth Klarer in Johannesburg early in 1968 after a reader's letter mentioned her. Klarer said that while riding in the Drakensberg hills near her sister's farm in 1957 she saw a craft above her with a man standing inside watching; it shot up into cloud. Later a compulsion drew her back and she found it landed, with the man, Akon, commander of a craft from the planet Meton in Proxima Centauri, waiting. They became lovers and she bore a son, Ayling, on Meton, but her heart and breathing failed in that atmosphere and she returned alone. Hind wrote it up for FATE in 1968 and carried the manuscript of 'Beyond the Light Barrier' to Joe Brill in Quincy, Illinois, guarding it against the Russian spies Klarer feared; Klarer once hid from them when a craft tried to land. The book failed in America because its romantic passages read like a love story. Klarer refused to alter anything and died in poverty in February 1994.

What Hind made of it

Hind found Klarer charming, genteel and sincere, never believing she deliberately lied, but suspects an illusion or euphoric dream-state; she put the Russian-spy fear down to imagination and asks why Klarer is dismissed when Betty and Barney Hill and Linda Cortile are believed.

Explanation offered
Sincere belief in something that did not happen (illusion, dream-state of euphoria)

In their words

  • There may be Russians on the plane and they will try to take it from you.

    Elizabeth Klarer, spread 06

  • I have never felt that Elizabeth Klarer deliberately lied to me; she was not that sort of person.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 07

Cross references

  • FATE magazine, August 1968
  • Beyond the Light Barrier (Klarer's book)
  • Illustrated Life Rhodesia (Hind's first article)
  • MUFON Conference, Dayton, Ohio
  • Betty and Barney Hill
  • Linda Cortile

Connected

  • Elizabeth Klarer, International EnigmaCase fileSame place

    10-12-1 (Mooi River area, Drakensberg, 1957) and 05-16-3 (farm Whytelease at Rosetta, 1956) are outside this cluster and give the true location of Klarer's sighting, about 150 km north-west of Durban. 20-06-1 carries default Durban city-centre coordinates and belongs to the Drakensberg, not to Durban. Klarer lived in Johannesburg and died in a Durban hospice in 1994, which is the only Durban link.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 20 (July 1999), spread 06-08

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