UFO Sightings: South Africa

Sightings to date: 3

Benoni  | Johannesburg 2 | Johannesburg 1

Page updated: 09 June 2005

Reported By: Janice - Benoni, South Africa - September 26, 2003
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location:  Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa - Date: September 23, 2003 - Time: PM - Witnesses: 3 - Object's Shape: Light - Number of Objects: 1 - Object had lights -  Object hovered - Object became transparent - There is a Public Airfield in the area -  Additional Information: R24 Highway to Witbank (traveling North East)
Event Description:
I was traveling home from Johannesburg on the R24 highway in an easterly direction towards Benoni with my husband and adult son. We were traveling home at about 1900 and noticed a star like array of bright white lights directly ahead and in front of us. 

The lights were very high up in the sky (too high to be a warning light for aircraft or other type of warning light on a building) and did not move.  As the road we were traveling on passes by a flight path to the Johannesburg International Airport, we thought that it was an oncoming airplane. 

However, the object did not move in the sky (as though suspended from a very long pole) and neither changed altitude or direction.  We watched it for about five minutes, as we were traveling towards our home town (Benoni) and then as we approached a long sweeping bend in the road, the object (light source) just slowly disappeared (as though a light would be turned off using a rheostat). 

There were small red lights beneath the array of bright white lights and these red lights continued to glow faintly for a few seconds.

Reported By: Deena - Johannesburg , Guateng , South Africa - January 22, 2003
Subject: UFO Sighting - Event Location: Johannesburg, Guateng - Country: South Africa -  Zip Code: 2091 - Date: 01/12/2003 - Time: 2:00 AM - Witnesses: 4 - Objects Shape: Light - Number of objects: 1 - Object had lights - Object had an: Aura or Haze around it - Object emitted beams of light - Object changed colors - Object became transparent  -  There were aircraft in the area - Additional Information: Guateng Robertsham over goldmines
Event Description:
It was 2:00 AM in the morning, still dark outside. I was in my room reading
when I suddenly felt the urge to look outside my window. There is an old  goldmine a few kilometers from my house. My window faces in the direction of the gold mine.

There above in the sky, I saw a round circular light moving through the trees emitting a bright white light around it. I couldn't see what object was made from, light was too bright. It was very close to the trees over the goldmine. Suddenly, it whizzed in seconds up into the sky going more bright, moved from east to west in seconds of a great distance then stayed stationary.

I woke my parents and the rest of my family to come check it out. We were amazed. The object grew bigger then very small, then started twinkling like a star. Afterwards it grew big again, started zigzagging on the spot in all directions at an extreme speed then hovered, completely still for quite a while. An airplane was approaching from the West, looked like a Boeing 747 and was at the same altitude as the UFO.

As the plane approached the direction of the UFO, the UFO shot higher up into the sky and went very dim and smaller, looked like it camouflaged itself as a star. They flew below it and passed and was gone out of sight

Then the UFO shot lower from above, grew bigger emitting a very bright white light again. It just hovered very still, not making a move for about an hour.

My Mom got scared and told me to close the window and close the curtains. My sister was excited about it. We called our neighbors too. We all witnessed something amazing!

Can anybody tell me what it was? Also I believe it was giving off telepathic waves or something. Like it wanted to be seen or something. It sorta had a vibe coming from it. I took a photo of it, but when I developed the film it was totally blank.

Reported By: Sumayyah and Ibraheem - Johannesburg, South Africa - 1/09/03
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Johannesburg, South Africa - Zip Code: 2006 - Date: November 2002 - Time: 7:45 PM - Witnesses: 2 - Objects Shape: Diamond -
Number of objects: 1 - Object had an: Aura or Haze around it - Object became transparent - Additional Information: Brixton
Event Description:
My husband and I saw the UFO on our way home. We were walking at the time. We kept an eye on it.

We stopped some people and tried to alert them, but the UFO disappeared so I thought I was just seeing things. We continued walking and it appeared again for sometime. We watched it then we stopped another person and it disappeared. My husband has had the similar encounter with UFO's.


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