Clifford Muchena and the men in silver suits, La Rochelle

What was reported

In a footnote to her discussion of whether aliens might be spirits or ghosts rather than people, Hind recalls that at La Rochelle in Zimbabwe Clifford Muchena saw three men in silver suits watching a fire burning in an orchid storage building called 'The Fantasy'. Asked who he thought they were, he answered that they were the spirits of his ancestors. Hind gives this as typical of many African cases where witnesses interpret the beings through ancestral belief. No date is printed in this issue; it is a back-reference to one of her earlier investigations.

What Hind made of it

Offered as an example that aliens may be experienced as spirits in Africa.

Explanation offered
Witness's own: spirits of his ancestors

In their words

• The spirits of my ancestors

Cross references

• La Rochelle case (earlier Hind investigation)

Connected

• Fireball and three shining men at La RochelleCase fileNamed person

  Same event; footnote in Afrinews 21 using Muchena's 'spirits of my ancestors' answer as typical of African witnesses reading beings through ancestral belief. Undated back-reference.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 21 (January 2000), spread 18

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