r
I
Forthepurposesofthisarticle,
It
wouldbeimpossibletoshowthistableinfullbutsomeofthecollecteddataincludesuchcolumnsas:WitnessReaction,EffectonWitnesses,PhysicalTraceMarksandResidue,StrangenessFactor,LogicalExplanation,PossibleExplanatlons,etc.etc.
At
therecentMUFONConfernce
in
Washington
DC,
USA(June26-28,
1987),I
wasHlterest
dLa
Li
stentoBer.tilKuhlemahn's(Sweden)CriteriaforUFOreportsandthishas
qiven
meseveral
newrefer-
ences
to
add
to
an
al
ready
comp
r
ehens
i
ve
Lis
t.
IalsohaveaccesstoDrWillySmith'scomputer
programme
inFlorida,whichiscertainlyprov:inganexcellentbasis
for
establishinqapatterntoUFO
reports,
whether
itbe
in
Australia
or
Zimbabwe.
When
I
firstbecameinvolvedw_lt_h
UfOs,
the
'L
i
qht.sinthe
Sky
I
HlcidE'nts
were
amajorfactor
III
the
reports
1
received.
Mostremained
urlldt'nt-ifred,althouqhoft.enq
i
vcn
in
great
de
t.ar
l,
e.q.
the'
flYIngbullet'of
9t_h
July,
1974
reported
by
Ahm
Johnson
and
Bob
Sonde
rup
andseenat.
23.45-
hoursnear
PortE1
i
z
abet.n,.
Sout.hAfr
i
ca,
FIGURE1
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ItappearedtobeanobjectWIthaverydarkcone-shapednose,fourport-holesbrightlylitfrpmwithin,
andan
illuminatedtail.The
body
was
si
Iveri.shin
colour,
passingapproximately
500
metresabovethehorizon.(seeF~gure
1)
OnespeculatesinretrospectthatItcouldhavebeenthenoseconeofanexperimE'ntalspaceprobe,but:
_tt.
remat
nedurridentr
fi.edatthetime
due
to
lack
of
know
Iedqe
and
commurncati
ons,A
fte
rall,
how
marry
probeswere
t
rtedandfaded;and
It1S
onlywl.thtotal
honesty
amongallnatIonst.hatUFOsofthIStypecanbecomeIFOs..
011
25thJune,1986,therewerenumerousrE;'porls-1havede
t
a
i
lsfromfourpeople-ofaverybriqht,
1
1
qht.surroundedbya
faint
b1
UP
Lt
nqe,inthe
Durbal1,
South
Afrlca,area.Therewasnosound
and
nochallqeof['olour.Itmovedinanarcand
appeared
to
be
dtv
i
nq
behrrro
anearbyhill,
but
as
no'crash'washeard,ItwasObVIouslymuchfarther
away
thanthe
W,l
t.nr-sae
s
speculat.ed,
There
was
a
stranqenC'ss
factor
if
1
th
1
S
r-epor
t
foralthoughthe
witnesses
(names
and
addresses
are
held
by
theEditor)alllivedwithinashortdistance
ofone
another-
a
radIUS
ofabout5km-
there
was
a28minutediscrepancyinthetime.Two
reported
the
object
as
being
seenat
0540
andtheothertwosaw
it
at0608.Allfourwitnesseswerenoti.ncontact
wd.h
oneanother.Formostitwould
appear
tobe
a
meteor,
bolIde
orspace
debriS
of
some
kind.
However,
the
object,
~nthetruesenseofthe~ord,remainsunidentified.OnAuqus
t
13,1986at,0605hours,near
Ch.i
v
j
uin21mbabwe,alecturerfrom
the
UniversityofZimbabwesawaprfeeLsphere;shirunq,
shimmer
lng;agreen-ish-bluecolour,travellingfromEtoWwithatailofshlnlngwh1teliqht(Figure2)
rh
fe
wasnosound.
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