Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 150 · UFO Afrinews No 22, July 2000

Letter from 'Mary', Johannesburg: balloons ruled out, negatives in Australia

Johannesburg, South Africa

What was reported

Writing from Johannesburg, 'Mary' thanks Hind for the millennium issue and notes her sighting was numbered Case 150. She has since checked with the local Met Office, which told her weather balloons are released at 1 a.m. and 1 p.m.; neither would still be visible at 9:30 a.m., the time of her sighting, so she considers a balloon explanation ruled out. The negatives of the photographs she took have been sent to Australia for analysis and she is still waiting for the report, promising copies later. No description of the object is repeated here; the letter serves as a status update on the photographic evidence.

What Hind made of it

Printed without comment as a follow-up to Case 150.

Explanation offered
weather balloon, checked with the Met Office and rejected by the witness

In their words

  • Neither would still be visible at 9:30 a.m.!

    Mary, spread 17

Cross references

  • UFO Afrinews No 21, Case No 150

Connected

  • Report from Mary (South Africa)Case fileSame witness

    Mary's October 1998 spheres and her letter: Met Office releases at 1 a.m. and 1 p.m. rule out weather balloons; negatives sent to Australia, report never printed.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 22 (July 2000), spread 17

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