Case No 149 · UFO Afrinews No 20, July 1999
UAP on Video, Graaff Reinet
1998 ยท Graaff Reinet, Port Elizabeth (260 km NNW of it), South Africa
What was reported
On the afternoon of 27 December 1998 the Laubsher family watched eight to ten objects moving rapidly northward over Graaff Reinet, and Jacques Laubsher filmed about eight minutes. Investigator Noel Herbiet of ECUFOR had the footage enhanced in Australia; the analysts described deltoid shapes at about 12 000 km/h and 35 000 ft with an apparent magnetic field. The objects looked like small Chinese lanterns moving in a group; one or two would stop while the others circled them, showing red then blue when still and bright white in motion. Kay Collett likened them to gnats on pond water, blinking out and reappearing; one left a shadowy discoid image on the screen. They were judged four to five times the size of a 747. A much larger sphere, about eight times a 747 and twice as fast, passed through the group, which followed it behind cloud at 25 000 to 30 000 ft. Carte Blanche sought a US analyst and Hind suggested MUFON's Jeff Sainio.
What Hind made of it
Hind treats it as a strong video case awaiting MUFON analysis and promises more in issue 21 from ECUFOR and Kay Collett.
In their words
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the objects were deltoid-shaped, that their speed was about 12 000 Kmph, travelling at a height of 35 000 ft
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reminiscent of gnats that dart around on the surface of pond-water, sometimes blinking out and reappearing elsewhere
Cross references
- UFO Afrinews No 21 (forthcoming)
- ECUFOR
- Carte Blanche, M-Net
- MUFON
Source
Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 20 (July 1999), spread 14
In the archive
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