Earlier metal ball with CCCP lettering in the Cape

What was reported

Hind recalls that some fifteen to twenty years earlier, perhaps more, a metal ball fell somewhere in the Cape area. Local people were reportedly wary of approaching it in case a small alien emerged with a ray gun. Examination later showed the letters CCCP stamped on the metal, identifying it as debris from a decaying Soviet satellite. She raises the memory only as a parallel to the April 2000 Durbanville and Worcester falls, and gives no date, place or witness names, so the account is a passing reminiscence rather than an investigated report.

What Hind made of it

Hind treats it as obviously a decaying Russian satellite.

Explanation offered
decaying Russian satellite, identified by CCCP lettering

Cross references

• Mystery Metal Balls, April 2000

Connected

• Jack van der Merwe: giant ant on a lonely Cape roadCase fileSame place

  Neither is a Loxton report. Both are 'somewhere in the Cape' items given the same placeholder coordinate (-31.5, 22.0), 30.7 km from the centroid. They inflate the cluster count, and their 9.9 km proximity to Gansvlei Airfield is an artefact of that placeholder, not a fact about either account.

Source

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

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