Location: Loxton South Africa

Date: July 31 1975 Time: 7:50 a.m.

On a chilly, misty morning, Danie Van Graan was walking over a 10 ft (em) high earth bank, which protects his village from flood water. In the field below him he saw what looked like the aluminum roof of a caravan. The ‘caravan’ was an oval shape and Van Graan could see four people moving about inside as if in slow motion. They were small, thin, pale and wore cream-colored overalls. They had fair hair, slanting eyes, long faces and high cheekbones. Van Graan could hear a humming sound and when he approached approximately 15ft (4-5m) from the machine, the entities inside suddenly looked up at him. At that moment there was a slight click and a flap opened at the side of the object; a bright beam of light hit him in the face.

The light disoriented him and indeed from that time he has suffered blurred and double vision, though prior to that he had had no trouble with his eyes. at the time, Van Graan also noticed that he had suffered a nose bleed, which was later confirmed by an acquaintance. Suddenly the humming noise became louder and the machine took off very fast and very smoothly. Within about twenty seconds it had disappeared from view. Subsequently investigation at the site revealed landing leg traces. Of the alfalfa field where the UFO had rested, the landing site itself was barren, the soil hard baked. Van Graan stated, “Ever since that machine landed here nothing will grow in this spot.”

There is some suggestion that the entities may have done a survey outside the craft before Van Graan encountered them. Investigator Cynthia Hind located a second witness, Jan Van Der Westhuizen, who had seen nothing but had heard a humming noise at approximately 7:30 a.m. Since he thought it was a helicopter he did not investigate. If that noise was the machine landing then it was there for twenty minutes before Van Graan came across it. At the far corner of Van Graan’s field there was a virtually dried up duck pond and Van Graan found footprints in the ground unlike those of any of his workers. Although he had not seen them outside the craft it is possible that they had made an excursion.

Van Graan was asked what he felt when they left and he said, ‘What I did think, although it wasn’t at that very moment, was what a pity it was that I couldn’t go up to the machine and talk to those people.”

Humcat 1975-24

Source: Joe Brill & Cynthia Hind