Some time in the late 70's my dad claims to have seen a UFO right above the town. The story was something along the lines off:
On his way to work in the morning, dad looked up to the sky's and notice and object fairly high up which he took to being an airoplane. He thought nothing of it and went straight to work. Toward the end of the working day, one of his helpers pointed up to the sky to the object which was still there (some 7 or 8 hours later) in the same spot, his helper commented on the fact that it had just been there all day long and he wondered what it was.
Well it was far away and could not be clearly identified so dad phoned Kieth Robinson who was, besides being a blacksmith, also an exceptionally good artis and also owned a fairly powerful pair of binoculars from his days inthe merchant navy. Kieth said he's have a look.
Sometime later Kieth phoned dad and told him to come round to his house to have a look at a scetch he had made of the object. The scetch was of a flying saucer, true to the type most commonly identified with the disk on the edge, a domed top and flat bottom. Kieth maintained till the day he left town that this was no hoax and that this is what he'd seen...
Anyone else familiar with this or some similar story????
Hi Pual, I don't remember that but I do remember my mum telling me a story of when my dad and her came out of the bioscope (movie house, not in O'mund but in Cape Town and had seen one. I thought yeah, right, but she still says it was a ufo.........
Was'nt the 70'd the era of dope smoking?
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Ja nee, Happy Weed was a vegeterians delight in those days! :-X ;D
So strange .. I was planning to post one about the UFO sightings around our town .. anyhow seeing as its opened .. here goes .. Indeed they are true .. green stuff and the good liquid aside ... I recall the news of the sightings in the late 70's I had my one in the early 70 's could have been 73 or 74 .. it was lunchtime and I left tech to take a ride in the desert on my bike I had reached the " hole " and looked up and there in the distance was this l flat oval silver object ( no not a hubcap ) with an orange coloured circle in the middle .. I culdnt believe what I was seeing and proceeded to drive furiously through the desert toward this object in the sky .. i got quite far out .. close to the barbed wire fence and then it suddenly headed out in the direction of the sea in a flash and I mean fast .. gone .. I rushed home to tell my Mom .. ( first had her sniffing my breath to make sure I was not drinking during the day .. had pupils checked in case I was on dope ... She swore me to secrecy saying that people would think I was " crazy " only a mothers love could be blind to the fact that I was possibly a bit brain damaged ( bless you Mom ) any next day at work during her tea time Girla Nortje ( the lady of the blue rinse ) walked in and said .. " guess what I saw " she recounted her story of drving back from a womens guild some or other church meeting and seeing this object in the night sky // Auntie Girla did not drink or smoke dope .. she rushed home and dragged her husband out to see this object ,, there they were on the front stoep looking at it when it whooshed off in the same manner I saw ... mom had to apologise and told the family .. there were a few more sightings in the next week and then it disapeared .. Just our other friends in the universe seeing how we doing .. or hey maybe we saved the world .. they observed the people in our town and said .. " these earth people are crazy .. this planet is not worth colonising " and left disapointed ..
More like security wouldnt give them permission to land
Mike ja i do recall a silvery thing that flashed over town in i think about 1974,in fact we were at school,break time,a lot of us saw it but thought nothing of it,and now we are talking about it so something were seen......shit i just remembered, it was HUGO HE WAS NOT BORN,he came to earth in a saucer,now everything adds up.(Just a private joke between me and Mike)The top part of the story is real though,any takers...
i can recall a little while after arriving here in durban , these guys with odd long hair gave me some green stuff in a cigarette and once i had some i too saw flying saucers
Durban Gold?
actually its called durban poison ( all so i hear)
Ok apart from security not giving them permission to land , dropping of a child or two .. or some people thinking it was bad batch of dope .. come on ,, these things must have been seen by more people .. come on out of the woodwork and share you experience .. or are you afraid of being defined as whacky or a dopehead ??
Sandy, one evening a very weeird and large object appeared on our nightcams at security,about six or seven years ago,Pete has a copy of this on tape,but nobody could verify this huge sort of round object staying on the same height in a northerly direction.No weather balloon looks like that and anyway it was far more larger than a ballon.We still have no answer to that one.... any ideas anyone?
Jeez and wouzers! All these years security is on the lookout for thieves and smuggles amid their own residents and those who qualify as species Homo Sapien - turn your eyes to the skies bro's! They're comming from outta space. Why do you think the stars sparkle so bright at night - the bounty from CDM and NAMDEB light up their skyways to far off universes. Should you be so lucky to be the chosen ones to whom they reveal their existence to! Hell, I live where the biggest iron ore mine in the southern hemisphere is located, but we never get visits like that. Now I know why.
Don't ask me what kind of poison I consume - I have'nt ordered yet!
Yes Dalene .. a big hole in the ground with iron ore is not as appealing as shiny shiny fairy gold .. whether people want to acknowledge it or not we had quite a lot of sightings over the years and this is by basically sane albeit sometimes pleasantly disturbed people ... but thats what we oranjemunders are all about hey ??
Sandy, all was said in good humor ........... I know there were "sightings" at some stage - my dad, Big Dirk, who maybe was the most sane crazy person that I ever knew, also mentioned something like that at some stage, but it was so long ago that I had actually forgotten about it.
Like you say - Oranjemunders are just that little bit more than extra special. ( Ja, and this big hole in the ground with it's red dust that gets into everything .......... be glad you live where you do, even if you may feel a sense of unease because of the UFO stuff ...... ) You know, come to think of it: except for mad Mardgie whom everyone knew, I've never heard of any Oranjemunder who has ever been declared as "certifyable" and who had to be admitted to some or other institute. Here in the "outside world" we cannot claim the fame to that!
Dalene,i don't know if anybody saw it in the papers or not but a few weeks later more or less the same thing we saw here was seen over Durban..... now what!?Anybody seen the article in the papers?
One night sitting on my roof - I looked down upon Oranjemund and this is what I observed :
What did you have for dinner .....strawrum?
Dalene , I stick by my " pleasantly disturbed " label it fits so comfortably ... As far as our friends that dropped off one or two kids in O'mund but could not get permanent landing rights from security ... No unease .. try looking at the tik monsters here in CT they are scary stuff ..
Does anyone remember an AIr Canada Boeing flying low over the town circa 1975?
flying west to east...
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You doing grass or something!!!!
did I tell you that I'm going to Bloem for the currie cup final?
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Adriaan, I reckon you've hit the nail on the head!
Theres bound to be a bloody ufo over town if that team of yours loose.......
Adriaan, are you going to wear your WP jersey when we meet Helgat? Or are we just going to 'photoshop' it in later?
NO!!!! He said that he was a Cheetah supporter for weekend, so Paul, don't you start stoking some fires here. Mike, you better search them before you guys leave ....
GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR TOM ?
Maybe i gotta wear something blue.....huh!
No Blue in the Cheetah Wagon Broer, not because of the Weeepeeee, but I don't want my Cheetah mates thinking it might be related to the bulls, thos emense in Bloem are trigger happy and don't like the bulls...
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dunno if you know wp also blue.......and white.. :o