[meteorite-list] UFO in South Africa

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:33:43 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <200701051733.JAA00763_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

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> http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2050666,00.html


UFO crashes in SA
Fanie van Rooyen, Beeld
news24.com (South Africa)
January 2, 2007

Pretoria - A UFO was sighted at Lephalale, where it was described as a
strange object "on an orange cloud, singing like a million turbines" -
hitting the earth with a bang at 04:33 on Saturday.

That's according to Leonie Ras, the administrative manager of Lephalale
(Ellisras) who witnessed the spectacle at her daughter's farm just east
of the town on Saturday morning.

"I was lying on my bed reading SMS-messages when I heard a noise like an
Airbus aircraft firing up its motors."

"It was raining but there was no thunder or lightning. The noise grew
louder and eventually it sounded like a million turbines screaming in
unison," Ras said.

She walked to the bedroom window and saw the clouds taking on a bright
orange-red colour.

"Suddenly, a bright object plunged from the clouds to the earth, at a
terrible speed, and hit the ground with an almighty bang."

"It looked like Haley's comet, round in the front and with an orange-red
tail following behind."

When the UFO hit the ground the low-lying clouds went orange.

"It was so exceptional that I started crying. I wished my children and
grandchildren could have seen it. I had not been drinking and I was in
full control of my faculties," she said.

She calculated that the object must have hit the ground near Beauty,
between the Tambotie and Palele rivers.

Cobus Nel, her son-in-law, who was also in the house, woke up from the
commotion.

"I woke up to a terrible rumbling, followed by a sound like an
explosion. I woke my wife up, so that she could also listen, because the
rumbling lasted more than a minute, becoming louder, then we heard the
bang," Nel said.

Lephlale's fire service, police and disaster control centres seemed to
have slept through the commotion.

"I want someone to go and have a look. The farms here are big, and it
could have fallen somewhere, where the farmer doesn't even know about
it," Ras said.
Received on Fri 05 Jan 2007 12:33:43 PM PST