Case file · Sighting
South African UFO flap of 1995
From late March to mid-April 1995 South African papers carried reports of hovering craft, stalled engines and stopped watches across the North West and Free State.
1995 CE · -26.00, 26.00 · status: account
The account
Claims included an object at De Brug seen by a woman and police officers, a farmer near Coligny whose road was blocked by a craft for three minutes, and a truck whose engine died as a light passed. A year later police in Pretoria chased lights in a helicopter.
The sceptical view
Most reports were not investigated in depth; bright planets, aircraft and media contagion explain much of any flap.