Danie van Graan and the caravan without wheels, Loxton

What was reported

Walking early to check his sheep kraal beyond the village flood wall, Danie found what looked like a caravan inside it and, taking it for a government uranium survey team, went over hoping for coffee. Close up it had no wheels but stood on tines, its windows were unusually large, and the four short men inside wore tight hooded suits and had slanted eyes; three peered into a microscope-like instrument, the fourth stood at a console of flashing lights. At about five metres they looked up, a click sounded and a beam struck him; he felt he was drowning. The craft rose fast, almost hitting his windmill. He vomited, his nose bled, he developed conjunctivitis and double vision, and died of cancer within a year or two. Five tine marks, four arrow-shaped indentations, a criss-cross imprint and grey-green granules remained; nothing grew in the circle for 18 months.

What Hind made of it

Hind calls it the best physical-effects case she ever handled; she has never had a report of such marks from elsewhere and rates them the clearest unexplained tine marks ever recorded.

In their words

• Certainly for physical effects, the case of Danie van Graan of Loxton in South Africa, was the best ever.

• like the Russians (Mongolians)

• He was never the same man again.

Cross references

• UFOs: African Encounters (1982)
• Issue 22 (July 2000) promised more early cases

Connected

• The Click Sound: Danie van Graan at LoxtonCase fileSame witness

  The two fullest narratives, fourteen issues apart. Both: caravan taken for uranium prospectors, click, beam. Only 21-03-1 adds the console of flashing lights, the near-collision with the windmill, conjunctivitis and double vision, and four arrow indentations plus a criss-cross imprint. Detail accretes with retelling.

• Alien Descriptions: Danie van Graan's thin, pale beings, LoxtonCase fileSame behaviour

  Slanted eyes and small stature in both, but 21-03-1 identifies the source as the same witness, so this is repetition, not agreement between observers.

• Danie van Graan, Loxton: the two-metre dead circleCase fileHind follow-up

  Contradiction on the dead circle's duration: 10-05-1 says nothing grew there for several years, 21-03-1 says eighteen months.

• Danie van Graan, Loxton, 31 July 1975 (radiation effects recap)Case fileHind follow-up

  Contradiction on the medical outcome: 17-10-3 gives death from cancer on 4 January 1981, five and a half years after the encounter; 21-03-1 says he died 'within a year or two'.

• Danie van Graan of Loxton: the glass 'jewel' and the sheep that walked around the circleCase fileSame place

  The sheep kraal: fused sand picked up as a 'jewel' and sheep parting to skirt the circle in one, five tine marks and grey-green granules in the other. Same enclosure, same investigation.

• Danie van Graan at Loxton (editorial recap, slow motion)Case fileSame place

  Both site the kraal beyond the village flood wall that protects Loxton from its hillside reservoir. The verified POI list confirms the geography: Loxton Dam and the seasonal town dam sit 1.5 km east of the village, within 1.8 km of the reported spot.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 21 (January 2000), spread 3-4

In the archive

This case became a story on this site.

1975 · South Africa

The caravan in the kraal at Loxton

He went over hoping the uranium men would give him coffee. At five metres four small figures looked up, something clicked, and a beam of light hit him.

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