Southern Africa Unexplained

Case N° 152 · UFO Afrinews No 21, January 2000

Report from Kurwama Kanengoni (Harare)

1998 · Harare, Zimbabwe

What was reported

In April 1998, aged 18, Kurwama saw an object shaped like an American football moving very slowly from east to south at tree-top height, about 20 m above the ground, at roughly 8:10 pm on a clear night. It seemed to appear from nowhere and gave off an unusual crackling noise he had never heard before. It glowed at regular intervals with colours he cannot describe, having never seen the like. It was first about 40 m from him and came to within 20 m before he watched it disappear. He initially took it for a shooting star, but its low altitude and closeness changed his mind. Hind prints the report without comment.

What Hind made of it

Explanation offered
Witness first thought it a shooting star or meteorite

In their words

  • He watched it until it disappeared.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 13

Connected

  • Letter from Norbert Kazingizi: red ball over Waterfalls, HarareCase fileSame behaviour

    Slow, silent, glowing object at tree-top height over a Harare suburb, appearing from nowhere and disappearing, approaching to tens of metres: Kanengoni's football shape of April 1998 (crackling) and Kazingizi's red ball of August 1993. Both witnesses first thought of a meteor and rejected it for the low slow flight.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 21 (January 2000), spread 13

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