© Original illustration by Brian van Malsen.
The 10-second sighting by these two pilots in May 1996 is something that they will never forget.
Following is the original account from the witnesses. Only minor edits were made.
We are Brian & Lynette van Malsen from a town called Springs 50 miles east of Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa.
And we saw what your witnesses saw in your UFO news of AZ town in exact detail only 13 year's earlier.
We are both retired pilots and very aware of things in the sky. And we can recall our sighting like it happened yesterday.
No kidding. It was May 1996 ( fall ) at sun set just after 5 p.m. We had just finished supper at 6:45 p.m. and went for a walk in our back yard to look for a satellite that used to track NW to SE at that time. We saw our satellite and started to walk North back to the house and as we walked I looked up at the evening sky.
The very next instant I saw the UFO ( clear as daylight ) moving South to North at about 3 times the speed of a commercial jet, round about 7,500 to 10,000 feet.
Shouted to Lynette to look and she saw it too. I immediately listened for sound, but nothing, thinking at first it was some NATO stealth jet?
But over my suburb in South Africa at low altitude - impossible?
Joburg Int ATC would have it on radar as this is a special rules flying area with three military air base in a 60 mile radius - Dunnotar military flying school down the road a few miles ( flying SAAF Harvard's / T6 Texans noisy & slow ) and then Waterkoof and Swartkops airbases near Pretoria.
We got to watch this UFO for about 10 seconds and this is what we saw.
A black triangular shape, but with more of a wing profile, 300+ feet long , blocking out the stars. Not a sound, with dull red wing tip lights also down the trailing edges of the wings. I know of nothing that can move that fast without noise.
Well this is closure for us. We must have seen something!
Kindest Regards
Brian & Lynette van Malsen
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