What Do We Know About CE IIIK In Africa?

It is quite true that CE IIIK reports from outside the United States rarely reach a wider audience. In fact, in my books I have tried to make people aware of cases from around the world that have far more detail than most accepted cases from the United States and are not tainted by the whole "Grey" fiasco".  I do need to make it clear, however, that small statured, large headed entities were reported before the whole Hopkins/Streiber mess but they were not "Greys" (as I have noted many times before there are so many variations on what a "Grey" looks like that it is almost mind-boggling that no one has noticed or spoken out on this before,

After a couple of comments on this blog I decided to see what reports from the African continent had made it onto the internet.  Mainly, as expected, the Ariel School report of  September 1994, when more than 60 children at a school in Ruwa, Zimbabwe claimed that a UFO visited them during recess. That was the big one that was generally botched up by investigators as well as the internet to such a point it is almost impossible to find the original report details. John Mack helped to taint the statements so that it became incredibly "new age".

So what reports could I find other than that one? Thanks to "Humanoid" reminding me I checked URECAT which is missing many major reports so I am unsure whether Patrick Gross has given up on the project -certainly I covered a good couple cases in my books and even one interesting case in the AOP Journal. If anyone did look this is what they would find.

1955, BILENE, GAZA, MOZAMBIQUE.

Journalist Pablo Villarrubia Mauso of the Brazilian ufology magazine "Revista UFO", noted that he had heard from Fernando Da Silva Martins, that there is a testimony about the appearance of a gigantic "extraterrestrial ship" on the San Martinho Beach, in Bilene, Mozambique, some 180 km in the north of Maputo, in middle of the 1950's.

Martins told him that a "cipaio", an indigenous policeman of old the Portuguese colonies, "entrusted an episode that marked his life".  The witness was never identified by name, but stated that in the area and during the rainy season, a luminous flying object flew down out of the sky and landed and then "men" emerged.

These "men" then  gathered samples of roots, potatoes, sand and plants before re-entering the object and leaving (there is a huge jump in the account here but assuming this is safe). The object and "men" were said to have returned the next year.  Here we have another leap in the account as we are told "Decades ago, these landings were already observed by the ancestors of the current residents of the beach".

Here we have a totally unreliable report and it is unreliable for a very good reason. "He said that someone else said" and that type of thing would be laughed out of any court (not that it would even get near one).  We have no real description of the object and none of the entities so how did this "mark" the man's life?

Pretty useless but noted for the record.

5th APRIL , 1960, BEIRA, MOZAMBIQUE:

Apparently, the French newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré reported a month after the alleged event that on 5th April , 1960, in Beira, Mozambique, an orange disk landed with a hissing sound, then exploded, while four dwarfish figures ran away into the brush.

MAGONIA Catalogue case #502 citing FSR for September-October 1960 and Dauphiné Libéré, for May 9, 1960.

I have to say that I tend not to believe these reports. Vallee, quoting a by then well known UFO hoaxer, noted a 1790 case of a sphere that fell from the sky and a being in tight silver clothing ran off before it exploded. There are similar incidents from the United States and Turkey and absolutely none of them have proven true. 

See https://terryhooper.blogspot.com/2012/02/a-crashed-ufo-in-1790.html

25th December, 1963 Time: night Libreville Gabon

A fisherman witnessed the landing of a mysterious craft from which a terrifying humanoid creature emerged. It spoke sounds he could not understand before reentering the object which took off. Apparently it left huge footprints on the sand, 

Humcat 1963-2
Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia citing Radio Gabon broadcast, Radio France Culture du 12-26-1963, L’Etoile du Congo  January 7 1964.

If any of our French readers can find or know of any other more detailed accounts PLEASED get in touch. We can note this but without names and other corroboration it is not much in the way of even anecdotal evidence.

 1979 Time: evening Near Lastoursville, Gabon

In a clearing near the village two women on their way to a local plantation watched a disc-shaped object descend to the ground. Once the object landed two small white humanoids briefly emerged then walked back inside again. The UFO then leaves at high speed.

Source: Inforespace # 55

It sounds interesting enough but the lack of detail means it is insufficient. Again if any reader has more details please get in touch,

December 1965 Near Nairobi, Kenya 

 There was a report from Kenya, which appeared in the Nairobi Daily Nation sometime in December of 1965. It is stated that Michael Mudachi was sitting in his home near Eastleigh Airport when he saw a point of light approaching from the horizon. As it got closer he saw that it was an elliptical object with clear windows. The object landed vertically and three humanoid figures emerged from it. It is said that these figures were wearing what looked like tall hats -tall hats/headgear are known in other CE 3K reports.

These entities were of  human appearance as well as " seemingly a synthesis of all races". The entities spoke in an incomprehensible language but were able to make Mudachi understand that they were not hostile and wanted to take his photograph. Hear we learn that there were allegedly two other percipients and to get Mudachi to agree to having his photograph taken they first photographed his brother and another witness.  After these photographs were taken the entities put him on a platform where there was an implement like a birdcage which emitted a white light "like sunlight" . Then a powerful ray shot out from a "red bulb" at the centre of the device which hit Mudachi on the chest leaving him spluttering and fighting for breath. 

Suddenly the beings left without him seeing how. After the incident he fell into an unusually deep, dreamless sleep. Later he suffered from hallucinations, depression, loss of appetite and general malaise.

Foreign Abductions blog page by Aileen Garoutte, September 9, 2006  https://ufoexperiences.blogspot.com/2006/09/foreign-abductions.html

Patrick Gross on URECAT does seem to haver a few cases with the explanation that "it might be a helicopter". Here he wrote:

"Reading the report, second or third hand, I imagined very well that Mr. Mudachi, about whom we know nothing, was perhaps a person who had very little contact with the urban and modern context of the airport, its planes, its helicopters, who was simply shocked by these people - described as human - wanting to take this photo, apparently with a flash. It is perfectly possible that this then gave a story by word of mouth that became incomprehensible because it was distorted, and then entered the newspaper.

"Such a scenario is not necessarily the right one; but in this matter, it would have been necessary to verify by an investigation what it really was, and all we have is a newspaper article according to second-hand sources, not a verified and investigated case."

It is almost a "throw the pasta at the wall and see if it sticks"!  He is correct that there is insufficient info, however.

There are more than a few problems here so let's narrow this down; firstly, it was not just Mudachi present but also his brother and another person. Three percipients, if we knew all the names, makes the case more interesting. However, the story is a jumble and makes no sense. If in the house how did Mudachi see the light and why did it attract his attention?  We assume that all three present left the house to go and get a better look.  

We know it says that the object landed and entities emerged but then it all falls apart. The entities indicated that they wanted to "take Mudachi's photograph" and to convince him they "took" photographs of the other two men.  Question is why was he hesitant? If we read this it sounds as though the three men were on board the object because what is described is not something you could carry about with you. It is quite obvious (if true) that the men entered the object.

Again, if  we can confirm that this was a real report then that would help but you need a date for the issue of the newspaper because it is a daily newspaper and that means looking through 20 copies and lords know how many pages! The thing is that if this was genuine then it has similarities to later "on board" incidents that were not known in 1965 and that adds a great deal of weight to the case.

There is so much detail missing that it has either been edited for brevity (does not seem the case) or the reporter was not really taking it seriously. The fact that he/they have no idea how the entities and object went is something else to note and it seems as though Mudachi also suffered from the then generally unrecognised Post Traumatic Stress Disorder -as noted in other percipients in such reports.

If -I do keep asking in the hope that someone will bother- anyone can check that newspaper's archives or trace the main percipient (if still alive) or his family it would be very useful and a great cold case to re-open.

1986, HWANGE NATIONAL PARK, ZIMBABWE, FOUR MEN:

It is stated that the African Ufologist Cynthia Hind apparently reported on a sighting in 1983 near the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe.

One evening in 1983, at 0:00hrs, four men had arrived back from the capital and were walking to their village along some thick brush when they suddenly noticed a very bright light in the sky. They stopped and watched as the light descended towards them.

Scared the the men hid behind some trees as the light came lower and lower, and they now saw that it was a bright disc-shaped object which then landed nearby.  A door on top of the object opened and two "men with light skin" stepped out and floated towards the ground.

At this point the witnesses panicked and ran towards the village.

Phenomenon - 40 Years of Flying Saucers, John Spencer and Hilary Evans, Avon Books publishers, U-K., 1989.

Now, I was really interested in Gross's conclusions on this one:

"The information which is available to me is totally insufficient, the witnesses are not named, the date is vague, it is not reported whether the UFO was noisy or not, the occupants are undescribed except that they are defined as human, no observation distance is indicated and so on. As it stands, it does look like an helicopter landing in the night, the only weirdness is the mention that the occupants floated to the ground."  

No. this will not do. I am sceptical to the point that I get accused of being a debunker but I have lost count of how many times it is suggested that what was seen might have been an helicopter on URECAT. It becomes almost insulting to the reader as well as those involved. This was 1986 and the men would have known what a bloody helicopter looked like and the noise would have quite noticeable, don't you think?  The men...hmm. Why not pilots thrown out by ejector seats (that do not exist in helicopters)?

Again it is insufficient but I can no longer ask the departed Cynthia Hind so if anyone can quote a source or more detail; please do.  I have searched and tried but found nothing and with all the Ufologists on the African continent now I hope one at least can help.

Based on the geography and population on the continent it is very likely that there have been other incidents but  a combination of religion as well as superstitious fear may b keeping some silent.  And before anyone comments on the "superstitious fear" note I will point out that exists in Europe and the UK; during the 1970s I was looking into a spate of reports from an area of Somerset and found two people who were known to have seen a UFO up close on separate occasions but they would not talk to me believing a superstitions about "the Devil's Eye" and bad luck. Both men were in their thirties and seemed quite educated.