Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 155 · UFO Afrinews No 22, July 2000

Blue-green oval over Du Toit's Kloof

1981 ยท farm between Rawson and Worcester on the side of Du Toit's Kloof, Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa

What was reported

Driving to their farm on a clear half-moon night, Mrs T. spotted a very bright elliptical object through the windscreen: electric blue-green with a thin broken red band round its horizontal axis, seeming hesitant rather than hovering. As she pointed it out it shot off at tremendous speed toward the Southern Cross, appeared to settle among those stars, turned orange and vanished. At the house both saw it again heading toward Tulbagh; when the red light of a regular night flight appeared, the object shot at right angles toward the plane and vanished just above it, looking quite large. Mr T. found the borehole pump running only half on, which had never happened. At 12:55 a.m. he saw it once more, disappearing toward Worcester. Mrs T.'s brother had heard a humming whine earlier with no wind.

What Hind made of it

Reported by Prier Wintle of Cape Town; printed without explicit judgement as a well-witnessed older case worth reviving.

In their words

  • It's here again

    Mr T., spread 07

Cross references

  • Some Older Cases Reviewed

Connected

  • More Strange Lights in the Sky: a) Cape TownCase fileNamed person

    Prier Wintle of Cape Town reported Mrs T's 1981 Du Toit's Kloof oval for the 'Older Cases Reviewed' feature and was the 1996 Mowbray witness.

  • CE III in the Drakenstein Mountains above PaarlCase fileSame place

    Du Toit's Kloof: Henry's 1951/52 landing near the summit and Mrs T's 1981 blue-green oval on the Worcester side, 29 km apart. Both are Boland mountain cases 61-89 km from the centroid, not Peninsula cases; the 89 km radius pulls them in.

  • Pilot Sees Light StreakCase fileSame behaviour

    Object approached or paced an aircraft: the 1981 oval shot at right angles toward a night flight and vanished just above it; 1998 radar blips followed an airliner at Mach 12-14. Independent, 17 years apart; the 1998 report is third-hand from an unnamed crew.

  • Report by J S of Cape Town: the 'U S A rocket'Case fileSame behaviour

    Sharp V or right-angle turn: JS 1980, Mrs T 1981.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 22 (July 2000), spread 06-07

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