POLICE VIDEOTAPE FLYING DISK IN SOUTH AFRICA
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by Marius Lubbe
It was reported on SABC TV news this evening 28 August 1996 that video
material was shot of an alien craft very early this morning over
Pretoria (about 60 kilometers North of Johannesburg). The footage taken
by a police officer on duty, Sgt. Nico Bekker, was shown and I have a
copy of this report on videotape. It shows a disk shaped object which
seems to be lightly pulsating. The photographer who had some witnesses
with him said that they are certain that this is something unusual, as
there were some lights flashing on the disk. He also mentioned that the
disk looked like a saucer.
In a different part of the city, another witness was interviewed and he
said that the object travelled silently and in a undulating fashion.
When asked by the reporter whether he thought that it might be a hoax
this witness, Mr. Johan Becker said that he couldn't conceive of someone
spending the huge amount of money it would take to construct a craft
like that, just to perpetrate a hoax.
An interview with a Police helicopter pilot, Superintendant Fred Viljoen
was also shown. He had 4 passengers in a police helicopter and chased
after the object. This man looks as if he had seen a ghost. He says that
the craft outran him with easy and what was very unusual to him, was the
undulating movements of the craft.
Here is an encounter taped by a on duty police officer. Another ranked
officer pilot corroborates. Witnesses are coming out in the dozens and
we have the video material.
Let the debunkers chew on this a bit!
Yours Sincerely,
Marius Lubbe
Director
Creative Minds(tm)Computer Schools
More to follow! E-mail me if you need more info - at
creative.minds@new.co.za
Subject: Followup report South Africa 1 September 1996.
Follow-up to Report on UFO Over Pretoria -South Africa.
01 September 1996
The following report was published in "Rapport" our largest Afrikaans
Sunday newspaper today. I translate verbatim from the Afrikaans text:
WAS IT A HOAX OR WAS IT LITTLE GREEN MEN?
Was it a marketing ploy for a movie or the return of ET?
Nobody has up to now come forward to claim responsibility for the bright
light seen in a burst of colours in the airspace over Pretoria this
week.
The object drifted along in the early morning over the Erasmuskloof
suburb until police appeared on the scene. It then shot of at an
"unearthly" speed over Pretoria until it disappeared over the horizon at
Cullinan.
This is what witnesses says and also what can be seen on the video shot
of the object that morning.
In the meantime earthlings in South Africa are looking for an
explanation in movie theaters where Independence Day started showing on
Friday. Vonda Morgenrood, PRO for Sterland movie distributors says that
they had nothing to do with it and one can hear that she is becoming
agitated by this rumour.
Superintendent (Colonel) Fred Viljoen is also not to happy to have to
tell his story once again. He is a veteran of many dangerous chases
involving dangerous criminals and was one of the pilots involved in the
heroic rescue of people from the roof of a burning office building, the
SALU building, last year, and a serious man that studies historical Boer
- war campaigns as a hobby.
He stands by his statement of what he saw after his helicopter was
scrambled at 05.25am with 4 passengers on board.
" A bright light was above Mamelodi, a township near Pretoria, at 70
degrees above the horizon. I followed the white disk, with the unusual
flight pattern, in the direction of Cullinan. It moved at a high speed.
We could not keep up with it and eventually had to give up when lack of
fuel became a problem."
He stands by his statement that the disk was easily observable even in
broad daylight.
Supt. Viljoen says that he did not ask the air force to scramble a
Mirage fighter, but had contact with the control tower at Waterkloof air
force base. They told him that their radar showed "clutter" in the area
in which the disk was flying.
Supt. Viljoen says that it is the first time in his life that he had
seen something like this and also say that he has always been skeptical
about UFO's and visitors from other planets.
Sgt. Nico Stander, one of the policemen who was on patrol when the
object appeared, showed us the video he took of the events.
One can see the steering wheel of the police car, then you see the
bouncing ball of light through the front windscreen while hearing the
police radio chirping in the background. Its pulsating like a little
hart says one of the voices. The Sgt.'s voice says it could be a
balloon, the morning star or an eclipse of the sun and moon.
Whatever it was the Sgt. says it was the highlight of a boring night
patrol. On Tuesday nights, very little goes on in the streets of
Pretoria.
"It was a full moon night with a slight breeze blowing. The conditions
was very clear that morning. We were in the right place at the right
time and just got lucky I suppose."
Sgt. Stander has an interest in the unusual, and showed us a stack of
the American magazine "Encounters". UFO's is an interest of his and he
says that he believes in this sort of thing.
"When I saw this object, I just knew I had to get it on video. I went to
my dad and borrowed his camera.
When asked what he would have done if the disk landed and little green
men appeared, he said that he would have tried to communicate with them
and be friendly towards them.
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Hope this gives more info. I am still trying to get contacts at SA Air
force to respond and will try to get hold of the original video tape in
the next week.
Cheers
Marius Lubbe
Creative Minds(TM)
Cape Town - South Africa
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