Flying Saucer Hill: the stranger at the hotel and the SAAF flights

What was reported

Following honeymooner Doug's report in issue 19 of a cairn Klarer built to mark 'Flying Saucer Hill', Hind relays what the hotel proprietors told him. One day Mrs O'Hagan-Ward, alone at reception, was approached by a tall, good-looking man asking for Elizabeth Klarer, whom she had never heard of and who was not booked in. He thanked her and left; seconds later her husband came in, having seen nobody and no strange car in the car park. When Klarer later arrived with her newly published book, Mrs O'Hagan-Ward recognised its drawing of Akon as the visitor. Klarer had always told Hind she reported her meetings to the SAAF, and her book describes sheltering a SAAF helicopter crew forced down on the farm in a storm. O'Hagan-Ward said the SAAF flew the elderly Klarer to the hill yearly; on Cape Talk on 5 March 1999 a former hotel worker phoned in to say he had seen this himself.

What Hind made of it

Hind had always doubted Klarer's SAAF claims as unprovable, but notes the caller's corroboration and leaves the matter open.

In their words

• I saw it with my own eyes.

Cross references

• UFO Afrinews No 19 (Doug's cairn story)
• Cape Talk radio, Friday 5 March 1999
• Elizabeth Klarer case

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 20 (July 1999), spread 07

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