- Breaside Fort Beaufort, South Africa - South African
Police Fire At UFO
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- HBCC UFO Research Note: I have been talking by way
of email to the then sergeant of the South African Police. The
witness has agreed to be interviewed by way of telephone and Brian Vike,
Director of HBCC UFO Research will be interviewing the gentleman for an
upcoming show on the Vike Report. Stayed tuned for details as this will
certainly be one amazing story to be related. Also please note that permission
has been granted to leave the report as is, with name intact.
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- Date: June 26, 1972 Time: 10.00 (?)
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- Location of Sighting: Breaside Fort Beaufort. Number
of witnesses: 12 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Oval.
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- Full Description of event/sighting: Incident were reported
by others previously. I was then a sergeant in the South African Police
and witnessed the sighting. I was the policeman who fired shots at the
object with a .303 rifle and hitting it together with (name removed), who
was the owner of the farm. What I still cannot understand is that how could
be possible that the object have vanished into thin air without we who
were watching the spot not being able to see it taking off.
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- Thank you to the witness for the report. (HBCC UFO Research
will be requesting more information if possible).
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- Additional Information:
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- Hi Brain
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- In 1972, I was a sergeant in the South African Police,
with eight years of service, in the small South African town, Fort Beaufort. The
morning of June 26, I received a report of an object which appeared on
the farm Breaside, which belonged to a Mr. Bennie Smit. At that stage I
did not know Mr. Smit well. I persuaded the Station Commander, Warrant
Officer Philip Van Rensburg to accompany me to the scene. On the farm we
met Mr. Smit and some of his workers including a worker by the name of
Boer de Klerk. Boer told us that during the morning when he was in the
veld at the reservoir when he witnessed a round "ball of fire"
which changed in colours, hovering about 20 meters above the ground and
which were slowly moving in the direction of the hill, which separates
the farm from the Fort Fordyce bush.
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- On our arrival we did not witness any suspicious objects.
We did the initial investigation and were skeptical. At that stage we
were seven people. Four laborers, 2 policemen and Mr. Smit. Whilst we were
standing looking at the hill which were 150 meters from us, I saw an object
which emerged from the thick bush and vegetation at the foot of the hill
and hovered just above the vegetation. It moved slowly to our right and
again disappeared behind the thick bush. It did this movement a couple
of times and I had the feeling that we were being watched. Mr. Smit had
a .303 rifle with him and I decided to take a shot at it. The object were
oval shaped and it was difficult to estimate the size of it. might have
been just over a meter in diameter.
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- It had a shiny dark metal grey colour. I fired three
shots at it, hitting with each shot.Mr. Smit also fired at the object.
During firing at it, I saw a sharp bright light, flickering on the right
of the craft, just above it. During the shots it also disappeared and emerged
again from behind the trees. It was in broad daylight after 10am in the
morning and the weather was clear. Mr. Smit and some of the workers went
into the bush with a handkerchief, tied to a stick enabling us to direct
him. We noticed that the object moved away as if it were reacting to our
voices giving direction to the searchers. I heard further shots coming
from close
- to where we last seen the object disappeared and Mr.
Smit enquiring if we could see it. We kept observation but did not see
its departure. According to Smit who claimed that they came close to it.
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- The object turned upright and became a greyish white
in colour before it veered of making a whirring sound. It just disappeared.
The following day we combed the area with other police officers and found
nine evenly spread circular imprints about 10cm in diameter in the soil
directly from where we saw it disappearing behind the bushes. The imprints
were in hard clay soil easily 25 - 30 mm deep. as if the legs were spiraled
in the ground.. Samples were taken and send to the Council for Scientific
& Industrial research Laboratories. Apparently it never reached them.
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- Also of interest is that a couple of days later in the
evening the town engineer Dr. D. Verschoor, interrupted a Council meeting
to show the councilors a UFO flashing in colours as it moved in the direction
of the Fort Fordyce bush and Breaside
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- On Saturday 8 July during the night ,Mr. Smit heard a
loud explosion on his farm. On investigation the next morning he discovered
that his reservoir, which were constructed of brick and cement were shattered
and large concrete blocks were lying up to 20 meters away from the actual
site. Another mysterious incident, never solved.
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- Thank you again to the witness for this amazing report.
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- Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: <>hbccufo@telus.net
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