Loxton 1975: sulphur in Danie van Graan's ground

What was reported

In an aside prompted by a MUFON Journal report of excess sulphur at an Australian landing site, Hind recalls that heavy sulphur traces were found in Danie van Graan's ground during the 1975 Loxton investigation. The contamination reached his water, and district people came to paddle in his pool believing it cured skin complaints. In the letters section Joe Nyman of Massachusetts writes that in thirty years he has seen no landing or trace case more evidential, remembers Hind's slides at a Dayton lecture and urges a special monograph, asking how many daylight sightings with physical effects exist. Hind replies that it remains the best case she has had for physical effects and residue, adding that African cases were long ignored for want of investigators.

What Hind made of it

Hind calls it the best case she ever had for physical effects and residue left behind.

In their words

• to me this is the best case I ever had for physical effects and residue left behind.

• the Danie van Graan case is certainly a landmark.

• how many cases do we have of daylight sightings and physical effects?

Cross references

• Kelly Cahill case, Australia (MUFON Journal)
• Joe Nyman letter, Medfield, Massachusetts
• Dayton lecture slides

Connected

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

  Same 1975 Loxton investigation; 22-09-1 is the soil-chemistry aside plus the Joe Nyman letter endorsing the case from Massachusetts.

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

  Two chemistry findings from one investigation, twelve issues apart: greenish grains rich in thaumasite and high alkali in 10-05-1, heavy sulphur in 22-09-1. Thaumasite is a sulphate mineral, so they agree, but 22-09-1 adds that the sulphur reached his water and district people came to paddle in his pool for skin complaints, which reads like a pre-existing mineral seep on the farm.

• The Click Sound: Danie van Graan at LoxtonCase fileNamed person

  Hind names herself as investigator in eight of the eleven records. The only outside name attached to the Loxton case anywhere in the cluster is Joe Nyman of Massachusetts, a correspondent praising her Dayton lecture slides, an endorsement from abroad, not a witness.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 22 (July 2000), spread 09, 18

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