Case · UFO Afrinews No 20, July 1999
Report Back: Zamei of Dar-es-Salaam and the one-eyed beings
1998 ยท Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Hind reports on her efforts to follow up the issue 18 account from 'Zamei', who described several encounters in 1998 with short creatures that made unintelligible sounds like two glasses rubbed together and had a single eye set in the centre of the forehead, just below where human eyes sit. Attempts through a Tanzanian airline pilot and a local travel agent have failed. A respected ufologist found the story hard to believe because a single eye would deny stereoscopic vision. Yet Hind found in John and Ann Spencer's Fifty Years of UAPs three one-eyed entity reports from Argentina, Brazil and Peru in the 1960s. She still thinks the case too bizarre to be true, but notes Zamei sought no publicity, used a pseudonym and spent heavily on calls to Don Berliner and to Zimbabwe.
What Hind made of it
Feels the story is too bizarre to be true but sees no motive for a hoax and finds unexpected parallels in South American cases.
Explanation offered
Sceptic argued a one-eyed being could not have stereoscopic vision
In their words
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Entities with only a single eye would not have stereoscopic vision, which would be a serious handicap for any form of life.
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We have always felt that the Zamei case seemed too bizarre to be true
Cross references
- UFO Afrinews No 18
- Fifty Years of UAPs, John and Ann Spencer, Boxtree 1997, page 35
- Torrent, Argentina 1965
- Belo Horizonte, Brazil 1963
- Peru 1965
- Fund for UFO Research