Part 18: UFO Crash/Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum – Status Report VI © July 1991 by Leonard H. Stringfield

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To be more computer-friendly, the reprint has been divided into parts. Here begins Part 18 of Status Report VI, from July 1991. These status reports were written by Leonard H. Stringfield from 1978 to 1994. Previous Status Report VII begins at Earthfiles 12/15/03. Leonard Stringfield died on December 18, 1994.

"THE SOUTH AFRICAN UFO CRASH/RETRIEVAL AFFAIR:
A CASE STUDY OF UFOLOGICAL FACT, FICTION, FRAUD, FRUSTRATION - AND HOPE

South Africa, irrespective of its apartheid problem, is a modern, progressive, high-tech nation reported to be in possession of nuclear weapons. It is a likely spot on the globe for UFO surveillance - if technological modernity is a reason. Accordingly, reports abound in that region going back to the early 1950s. Such include landings, close encounters with strange entities and a crash of a saucer near Johannesburg in 1953 which, to my surprise, was confirmed by a CIA person with whom I had contact in the late 1970s, especially during the period when I began my probes into the C/R syndrome. Albeit, thanks to Cynthia Hind, a resident of Zimbabwe, and a veteran MUFON researcher, many well-investigated UFO reports in South Africa and its contiguous countries, have reached the rest of the world.