On 18 November 1993, at 10:15 pm, Messrs du Plessis and Venter, residents of Sasolburg, observed a craft arriving from the direction of Vereeniging.A decade later another hovering triangular craft was reported by a family travelling in the Hartbeespoort area, about 50 km to the west. These sightings occurred about a year after the Belgian UFO flap concluded. A similar craft was sighted in the nearby Eersterust township on the evenings of 8 and 9 April, either stationary or moving. On 7 April 1991, at 11:15 pm a hovering triangular craft with red central light, and white star-like lights on each extremity, was observed by a family at Baviaanspoort, Pretoria.In a humorous editorial, the New Scientist stated the apartheid South African government was "very fastidious about the sort of immigrants she welcomes and little green men may very well be on the prohibited list". The incident received coverage by international press, and led to businesses capitalizing on the incident, with a tavern calling itself the "UFO Bar" and painting flying saucers on the walls and the local Savoy Hotel keeping clippings of the stories posted on its walls. Though the Grahamstown army regiment was said to have investigated the site, the base could later not produce any records of the event. Nine imprints (three sets of three) of its supposed landing gear were found in hard clay. Six council members at Fort Beaufort also reported watching the object though binoculars. Smit had a final sighting after 12 noon, but subsequently heard its sound at night. When Smit fired two final shots from a mere 10 to 18 m distance, the object lifted off, entering impenetrable woods where it could be heard crashing through the undergrowth. They stated that the object had been changing its colour up to this point, but now assumed the appearance of a gunmetal grey, somewhat oval-shaped 44-gallon drum. van Rensburg arrived at 10:00 and fired additional shots. Police sergeant Piet Kitching and police station commander P.R. Instead the object reacted to their presence and voices by shying away and hiding.
Smit accurately fired eight shots at it, but these had no visible effect. He was alerted to it by his labourer, Boer de Klerk, who at 9:00 noticed a fireball of some 2.5 feet (0.76 m) in diameter, moving about at treetop height. Bennie Smit, owner of Braeside farm near Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape, claimed to have fired shots at an unknown object during the morning of 26 June 1971.Likewise its destination, landing or refueling places and the identity of its pilot remained unknown, causing some to examine it as a case of mass hysteria. However, these possibilities were discounted and the provenance of the plane remained unknown.
This was in the weeks leading up to the South West Africa campaign during the First World War, and many suspected a hostile German monoplane on a possible spy or bombing mission.
This is a list of alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects or UFOs in South Africa.įrom 11 August to 9 September 1914, thousands of South Africans in various parts of the country observed what they believed to be a nighttime monoplane, or believed to observe its headlights, while in some cases the aerial vehicle performed sophisticated maneuvers.
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