Size of Object(s)

many small lights 2 kms across

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

5 - 10 kms

Shape of Object(s)

small round coloured lights

Color of Object(s):

many colours

Full Description & Details

Us 2 varsity students were travelling from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) back to Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Cape Province, South Africa. Hitch hiking across Africa, tired, hungry and anxious to get back varsity. Had a lift with a dodgy charactar (who was on the front page of "Die Beeld" newspaper, Afrikaans, for murdering his wife and getting out of jail on parole, and who could not speak any English), driver mis-understood us, and thought we were going to Trompsburg, dumped us of side of highway, thinking he did us a favour, but we were several hundred kilometers off course, and lost at sunset. At about 7pm we were trying to camp on side of highway, but got rained on, so hiked to underpass for shelter. An hour later we started hiking again as rain stopped. We saw the lights of Trompsburg about 5 kms to west. There were small hills. A huge string of lights appeared, possibly 2 or 3 kms long. We assumed it was a train. But it was too big. Much too long, and trains only had white lights, these were coloured. They moved - without any noise at all, from left to right, right to left, up and down and every which way. We were stunned. Something happened which I can't explain - we could not do anything except watch. We wanted to turn and run, but we couldn't. We were seriously scared, but could not even blink - something had us glued to the sky. After some time, maybe 2 or 2 minutes, or 20, I don't know, the lights stopped moving to and fro, and they suddenly shot off away from us in the opposite direction, probably faster than a Saturn V rocket. The next day the local newspapers reported numerous "UFO Sightings" in the East Cape Province. I think we crapped in our pants. A true story.

Witness Background

Science graduate, 25 years in corporate management @ SAB Milller, brewer by trade but currently in I.T., both professionally and at university (U.N.I.S.A.). Friend with me was Dave Wood, son of the Bishop of "Matabeleland" in Rhodesia.

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