Ufological situation
Africa is in the rearguard of ufological life, only gradually revealing itself to the inquisitive gaze of scientists over the past 20 years.
While there have been a number of sightings in northern Africa and occasional reports from war-torn tribes living inland, the more densely populated and prosperous southern regions, especially South Africa and Zimbabwe, are the largest contributors to ufology on the continent.
Until recently, most of the known reports came from European settlers or their descendants. Local stories were rare. However, the situation has changed, thanks in large part to the work of one woman named Cynthia Hind. With the opportunity to travel freely throughout the continent, she collected numerous stories from the inhabitants of remote villages, noting that Africa is replete with sightings that the indigenous people, alas, rarely report. Within the tribes, superstitions and taboos are widespread, forbidding such stories. In a number of localities, the idea that UFOs and unusual creatures can fly from space does not even occur to people. Aliens are considered tribal spirits, and therefore UFOs are among the closed topics for discussion.
Government research is conducted only on a limited scale, but it is not shrouded in secrecy. In one incident in Zimbabwe on 22 July 1985, two fighter jets were sent in pursuit of a conical object hovering over Bulawayo and seen by dozens of local residents. The device was spotted by radar at an altitude of more than 2 kilometers, but when the fighters approached, it soared up, leaving the access zone. Although the author of this book suspects that it was a high-altitude balloon, the authorities did not try to hide information about what happened. Air Force Commander David Thorne confirmed, speaking on behalf of his department, "… we assume the existence of UFOs." Thorne further noted that, in their opinion, the objects may be of extraterrestrial origin.
Contacts
All types of UFO facts have been recorded in Africa, including airships at the beginning of the century and TKZ in the 1940s.
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UFOs often appear from the sea, as happened in Togo, where the appearance of the UFO caused a tidal wave.
In 1950, a report came from Dar es Salaam of a gray-skinned creature appearing in a little girl's bedroom. In 1951, a British engineer working in the Drakensteen Mountains gave water to a little man who said he needed water for his UFO hidden in a crevice, which he showed to an eyewitness. When the engineer asked the creature where it came from, the man pointed to the sky and answered "from there." Elisabeth Clarer, who lives near this place on a farm in Drackenberg, became the first African contactee to be abducted; the events that happened to her in April 1956 show signs of both types of contacts. The woman made the startling report of regular contact with a Nordic named Akon, who flew in from Alpha Centauri and wished to use Elizabeth to produce offspring. She had a child in due time,whom she allegedly gave birth to on the planet Meton - the alien's homeland. The hybrid child stayed there with his alien father!
Unusual physical traces were discovered near Rosmead in South Africa on November 12, 1972. The middle school teacher decided to find out what kind of strange light appeared over the school tennis court. The object was seen by many local residents that evening, including police patrolmen. Approaching the school, the teacher found a scene of destruction. Large chunks of asphalt were turned over and lay a few tens of meters from the court. The trees surrounding the court were severely scorched and dried up after a few weeks. Probably some NAYA was to blame for the damage caused.
Since the early 1980s, the UFO mystery has attracted the attention of the media throughout South African countries, and reports of contacts and abductions began to appear in the press. Soon there were reports of contacts of all types, which began to resemble cases occurring in other parts of the world. In 1978, visitors to the Grendal Reserve saw a strange object, which they found it difficult to describe, talking about the "shining stone" and "silvery people", but not mentioning the aliens. Local workers at the La Rochelle estate in Moutare in Zimbabwe faced even greater problems in 1981 when they saw a fireball and several silvery-clad figures wielding ray weapons. The local language did not have a word for silver, and there were difficulties with translation. Nevertheless, the eyewitnesses could not even imagine that someone other than God could appear from heaven,and they refused to believe that humans had already been in space.
In 1988, mother and daughter announced that they had been abducted from their car, which was flooded with light soaring above the ground and enveloped in eerie clouds of fog - as in the cases occurring in England and the United States. The creatures the mother and daughter encountered in the UFO also fit the typical gray description; they took medical tests and DNA samples from the abducted persons.
By 1995, stories of abductions, medical procedures and visits to people in the bedrooms were already commonplace, so that among the local residents there was a strong attitude towards them not as ancestral myths, but as alien contacts. Cynthia Hind founded a community of researchers, started publishing a magazine and printing books to educate the local population on UFO issues. The days of ufological innocence were drawing to a close, but little was heard of UFOs in rural Africa. Thus, witnesses to the incident that took place on March 6, 1996 in Bindur saw a small creature with a large head not far from the training center, making a strange noise. A student and employee of the center, who noticed the creature, decided that it was a ghost, since they had never heard of either UFOs or aliens. The woman was so scaredthat she refused to return to work.
Waves and special zones
Most of the reports come from the Drakensteen area in South Africa, as well as from the Umwumwa area in Zimbabwe. A major wave was observed in 1972.
From the book: “UFO. Sensational eyewitness accounts”. By Randles Jenny