Alien Intervention? Kerry's childhood orange glow

What was reported

The first of Kerry's experiences, told to Pam Puxley in Cape Town on 9 March 1999. Living with her grandparents on a farm near Lanseria Airport outside Johannesburg, she woke one night to a bright orange glow filling the large bedroom window that faced the veld. Sure the farm was alight, she switched on the light and ran to her grandparents shouting that there was a fire. Her grandfather and all the farm labourers ran out into the veld but found nothing; the glow had gone completely. Nothing more happened until she was thirteen, when her grandfather gave her a book on UAP sightings, telling her to carry on reading only if it interested her. The year is inferred from her being 21 in 1992.

What Hind made of it

Hind is trying to identify the book the grandfather gave Kerry and wonders whether her heavy reading since has coloured her later accounts.

Cross references

• Case No 147 (later experiences)

Connected

• Zeppelin-shaped objects over the West Rand (Herald report)Case fileSame place

  Kerry's grandparents' farm was 'near Lanseria Airport' (1978); the file geocodes it to the Johannesburg CBD placeholder, so the map hides the link.

Source

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

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