1988.02.11 15.00 On February 11, 1988, thousands of people in the city of Beira witnessed an ALO [ie UFO] flight. The object appeared in the sky at approximately three o’clock in the afternoon local time, hanging over the city. Workers at the local meteorological station said that the object, which looked like a parachute and […]
Loxton, Northern Cape, South Africa, Africa
1975.07.31 07.30 On the chilly, misty morning of 31 July 1975 Danie van Graan was walking over a ten-foot- (three-metre-) high earth bank, which protects his village from flood water. In the field below him he saw what looked like the aluminium roof of a caravan. (UFOs: The Definitive Casebook, Spencer) As he drew closer, […]
Kutum, North Darfur, Sudan, Africa
1967.08.03 [One] of the more intriguing [Project Moon Dust] reports is summarized here. Kutum, Sudan, 1967: A cube-shaped “satellite” weighing about three tonnes was found about 50 miles (80 km) from Kutum. It consisted of numerous smaller cubes fastened together with a “silky material”. The local authorities took photographs and “with difficulty cut samples”. No […]
Lake Chivero, Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa
1954.07.26 [Instructor] Squadron Leader A Roberts and a student pilot, R Howarth, were flying a Tiger Moth near Lake McIlwaine [now Lake Chivero], in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia), when the two witnesses saw a saucer-shaped silver object some 1¼ miles (two km) above them, and about six miles (nine km) away. Taking a closer look they […]
Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer, Morocco, Africa
1953.03.25 [Click image to clarify and enlarge] (The Hynek UFO Report, Hynek) 21.23 C-47 Crew Saw Object Land on Airbase / Ground Radar At approximately 9.35 pm, the control tower at Nouasseur informed the C-47 number 9181 that had observed the object earlier, that GCA radar had detected four objects on their screen and there were […]
Drakenstein Mountains, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, Africa
1951 Spring Juan Benitez published this classic alien encounter report in 1978. The witness, a British engineer working in Cape province, South Africa, had been driving up the Drakensteen Mountains in his car late at night when a man flagged him down and claimed he needed water. The man was under five feet (152 cm) […]
Indian Ocean, Africa
1941.09 June 24, 1947 – the date Kenneth Arnold’s Mt Ranier sighting would firmly plant the phrase Unidentified Flying Objects in the public consciousness – was more than five years away when the first known sighting of a “foo” took place. The witnesses were two sailors on the deck of the SS Pulaski, an old […]
Durban-Johannesburg, South Africa, Africa
1937 Name Elizabeth Klarer In 1937 while flying from Durban to Baragwanath with her husband they saw a blue-white UFO approach the plane, pace it for a while and then disappear. (UFOs: The Definitive Casebook)
Drakensberg Mountains, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Africa
1917.10 17.30 In her young years, in October 1917, Elizabeth [Klarer] saw her first UFO. (UFOs: The Definitive Casebook, Spencer) [An] experience… was related by meteorologist Elizabeth Klarer of Natal, South Africa to investigator Cynthia Hind. In October 1917 Elizabeth and her sister were living on a farm in a valley nestling below the Drakensberg […]