Case · UFO Afrinews No 22, July 2000
Elizabeth Klarer: The on-going saga
not printed (book published in Cape Town), South Africa
What was reported
Hind notes that astronomers have recently announced a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri in the Alpha Centauri system. She sets this beside a passage from Elizabeth Klarer's Beyond the Light Barrier in which Akon, Klarer's spaceman lover and father of her son Ayling, describes a home system of seven inhabited planets orbiting the third component of Alpha Centauri, Proxima, with the largest star giving reddish light a third as bright as the Sun's and the second resembling sunlight. Klarer wrote the book in the 1960s, though it appeared in English only in 1980 from Howard Timmins of Cape Town. Hind asks how Klarer could have invented a detail verified only in 2000. A filler on page 4 notes Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light years away, is the nearest life-supporting sun.
What Hind made of it
Hind presents the Proxima Centauri planet discovery as vindicating Klarer's account.
In their words
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Our home system in Alpha Centauri consists of seven planets, all inhabited by our Civilisation.
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How could Elizabeth have made up a story which would only be verified in the year 2000?
Cross references
- Beyond the Light Barrier (Howard Timmins, Cape Town, 1980), p 68
- New York Times Science News, 21 Sept 1999 (Alpha Centauri 4.3 light years)