Location. Near Umvuma Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)

Date: May 30-31 1974 Time: 02:30 a.m.

A married couple, Peter, and Frances, traveling from Salisbury to their home in Durban South Africa reported that in a five hour period between 2:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. one or both observed two UFOs, experienced effects on their car’s lighting system, felt the “loss of control” of the auto’s steering, observed “occupants” got a look at the interior of a UFO, and experienced the mysterious transportation of their auto over a distance of many miles. Some of these experiences came to light only after Peter was later hypnotized by a medical doctor.

The first hint of what was to come was the observation by both Peter and Frances of a “person” alongside the road, 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of Umvuma, Rhodesia, about 2:30 a.m. Frances said she at first thought it was a policeman, and she was concerned because Peter was exceeding the speed limit. The “person” had something “like a box” or a “Walkie talkie” in his hand, she said. Peter said he did not think it was a policeman because it was too “metallic.” Both witnesses agreed that the suit worn by the person shined. “It didn’t look natural,” said Frances. She looked back as soon as the “person” was passed but saw nothing. About ten seconds later Francessays she saw a light which she thought must be a house at the top of a hill. “I commented on the fact that someone must be up late,” she recalled. “Then I thought it must be a communications tower, as the light was a lot higher. Then it started to revolve like a lighthouse.” It was revolving on and off, she said. The light, which was on the passenger side, seemed to keep pace with the auto. “It looked very, very close,” according to Frances, but the distance was impossible to determine because the size was not known.

Frances described the light as being “very bright, almost blue in its brightness.” She could not determine either the size of the shape. Peter commented that the auto’s lights seemed to be fading and Frances noted this also. Then the lights appeared to go out completely. The auto was going about 140 kilometers per hour (90 M.P.H.) when the lights had begun to dim (including the interior dashboard lights). The car’s ignition did not seem to be affected, and the radio continued to play. The car was running smoothly going “like a bomb,” according to Peter.

“There was an immense light around the car,” explained Peter, and he was able to see without his car lights, which, as noted, had gone out completely. The light surrounding the car was described as a “bluish daylight-type, neon bulb, bright enough to cast shadows.” The car became very cold, according to the witnesses, so they turned on the car’s heater which seemed to operate normally. However, the car still did not warm up, so the couple put on heavier clothing and wrapped themselves in blankets. Still the car was cold. “I’ve traveled that area many, many times,” said Peter, “and I’ve never experienced cold like that. The interior of the car just turned into a refrigerator.” He remarked that the temperature had dropped “very, very quickly.” Peter also discovered that he had no control over the car. “I couldn’t stop the car,” he said. “I had no power over braking. I put my foot on the brake and it went in the normal distance but had no effect.” Even when he took his foot off the accelerator, he said, the car continued its speed. Peter related that he likewise, “had no power over steering and no power over handling of the car.” Francessaid she noticed nothing. Of course, the car was under perfect control. It was like automatic pilot. Peter concluded that he could have “gotten into the back seat” and the car’s control would not have been affected.

The couple now noticed what they considered a very unusual sight alongside the road. An African bus was on the side of the road with all its lights on. Including the interior lights, but there was no sign of anyone. The bus, with all its doors open, was sitting in front of an African trading post. “There should have been people there,” said Frances, “but there was not a soul in sight.” Peter explained that it appeared that everyone had gotten off the bus to eat, “but they normally don’t. They sit in there cooped up like chickens. They take all their goods with them. They even use the bus for a toilet. Nobody gets off.” Frances agreed: “Normally the bus would be piled high with chickens and bicycles and suitcases, but there wasn’t anything.” Having observed what was for them one unusual vehicle, they saw a second “mysterious” bus only 7 to 10 kilometers farther down the road. The first bus had been facing in the direction the couple was traveling, but the second bus was facing toward them. There was no store or other building near the second bus, but it likewise showed no sign of life.

“They weren’t even parked in the lay-by, and they get hefty fines if they are found by the side of the road not parked in a lay-by,” Frances explains. “It’s a danger to traffic. No bus driver will park on the side of the road if he can possibly help it.” Peter added “if he’s broken down, he puts up his triangles.” It was now possible to ascertain that the UFO was oval in shape, and it seemed to be either casting a beam of light to the horizon or receiving a beam which was cast from the horizon. It was “a very definite light source,” according to Frances. The car was still surrounded by the bright light, the witnesses reported. As they entered the outskirts of Ft. Victoria, the object “just shot down and vanished over the horizon, like a shooting star.” Peter now regained normal control of the auto. It was 4:30 a.m. by the car clock when they stopped at Ft. Victoria for fuel, and the auto took the normal amount of gasoline. The native attendant was the only person they had seen since observing the shiny “person” with the “Walkie talkie” alongside the road two hours earlier. The attendant said he noticed that something was wrong with their lights as they came into Ft. Victoria. However, when the lights were switched back on after the stop, they seemed to work normally again. The native attendant also expressed surprise that the couple were dressed so warmly and that they had wrapped themselves in blankets. Francesremarked to the attendant that it was cold, and the replied, “Is it?” the attendant was dressed in shorts. The couple went to the rest room, repacked the car, and Peter checked the car’s wiring. He found nothing wrong with the Peugeot 404 sedan. After about an hour at Ft. Victoria, where they saw no person, other than the attendant, they continued their journey towards Beit Bridgeand Durban. Once again, however, Peter had no control over the auto, which was moving at “an impossible speed.” From 120 kilometers per hour (80 M.P.H.) outside Ft. Victoria, the speedometer showed 130, 140, 170, “then off the top of the scale,” which was 190 (120 mph) according to Peter.

There was very little engine noise, he said, and little wind noise or sensation of speed, leading him to conclude that the speedometer cable had broken. Frances said she was not aware of the speed of the auto. Peter also noticed that they were traveling through what appeared to be a swampy area, even though there are no swamps in that part of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). “It is very dry in that area,” explained Peter, “but on this occasion it looked very wet and the vegetation looked very lush.” The road itself was quite dry. Frances said she was not as aware of the wetness of the area, because she was looking more upward than outward, but she noted that there were trees and lush tropical vegetation, even though the area is normally dry, with only an odd tree here and there. She also noticed water weeds. The couple also noticed that the normal sounds, such as crickets and locusts, were not to be heard. “It was as though someone had switched the sound off.” They saw no animals or other signs of life. The radio was still on, and the original radio program of jazz from Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, had been coming in well. However, at about 5:45 am the radio quit receiving. “There was nothing,” said Frances. About 6:15 am, when daylight began to replace the night, Frances says she fell asleep. Peter had just turned the headlights off. Frances recalls that there was “no pink tinge of breaking dawn. It just gradually got lighter and lighter.” Although this was a time when many animals were normally seen, none was observed.

About the time Francessaid she went to sleep, Peter said he began to feel hypnotized by the dots or “solid stream” of the center line marking on the road. He said it was “like the initial stages when one prepares himself for Astro travel.” “It was exactly the same sensation as when one is parting from one’s own soul[ASR1] ,” said Peter in describing his feelings after France’s went to sleep. At about 7 am or 45 minutes after Francessaid she fell asleep, they arrived at Beit Bridgeon the South African border. Peter had again regained control of the car about 3 kilometers outside Beit Bridge. He noted that he had no recollection of having seen the sun until they reached Beit Bridge. They were surprised to discover that the journey had taken about an hour less than anticipated. They had in fact, traveled 288 kilometers (180 miles) in 1 hour and 45 minutes, or at an average speed of about 100 mph. They were even more surprised to discover that their gas tank was still nearly full when they tried to fill it at Beit Bridge. The auto took only 2 liters of gas, or about 22 cents (South African) worth, despite the fact they had traveled 180 miles since filling the tank. In checking the odometer to determine the mileage recorded, they found that it had registered only 17 km (10 miles) from Ft. Victoria to Beit Bridge. Instead of the actual distance of 288 km (180 miles). When they arrived at the South African border check point at BeitBridge, they noticed that a clock on a tower indicated the time as 8:30 am whereas the time indicated by the auto’s clock and the witnesses’ watches was 7:15 am. A wall clock inside the customs office also showed 8:30 am.

The two objects had been visible when the couple arrived at Beit Bridge, but Peter and Frances had not pointed them out to the two men on duty at the border. Francessays the two objects appeared “metallic” in the daylight, as when an airplane reflects the sun. The two objects had “gone up together” and were now very small.

Since the reported experience, both witnesses say they have experienced changes in themselves. Frances, who was previously known for her “photographic memory,” now, has difficulty remembering simple things. She says her memory is “very poor,” and Peter says, “She has become the dumb blonde.” Frances also has had five dreams since the sighting which she considers prophetic. She could not remember three of the dreams, when queried by investigator van Vlierden on Dec. 1, but she did relate two. One concerned the completely unexpected separation of a recently married couple, and the other concerned a dream that she would be given 10 rand to spend as she pleased (she received the 10 rand the very next day as a surprise gift at the office where she works as a secretary).

On December 3 1974 Peter was hypnotically regressed by Dr. Paul Obertik, a medical doctor. According to Peter about 12 km outside of Ft. Victoria, a UFO about 300 yards above the auto sent down a beam of light into the car in which Peter and Frances were riding. This “gave the car a mind of its own,” according to Peter. There were voices coming from the radio at one point telling him what to do. Impulses were being sent through the car radio. “I tried to fight it,” said Peter. He says a “simulated screen” was placed in front of the windshield and slide windows of the car---from where, he did not know. The simulated scenes were “from somewhere else.” The auto was off the highway, and “the entire journey was made off the tar,” according to Peter. “We went in a dead straight line. We were not on the road at all.” He said they did not touch the road again until about 3 km before reaching Beit Bridge. Peter says his wife “fell asleep or was put to sleep” by the radio. A form (humanoid?) was beamed into the back seat of the car and sat there the entire journey. Asked what the form looked like, Peter replied that he had been told by the form that he would see what he wanted to see “in and around and at itself. If I wanted it to look like a duck, it would look like a duck. If I wanted it to look like a monster, it would look like a monster.” Under further probing by Dr. Obertik, Peter said that the beings were physical and had “the same basis forms as humans.” He explained that they had a “large trunk, neck, hairless, two legs, two arms.” Peter said they had “no form of reproduction organs,” and that he did not know how they reproduced.

He described them as “multi’s” but did not explain what that meant. He did say that the beings were “identical in size, shape, weight, color, looks.” Peter said, “They took about seven seconds to find out that I had communicated with the past, that I had control over my mind to be able to give myself post-hypnotic suggestions. They erased this, or tried to erase this, so I wouldn’t be able to hypnotize, and tell what happened inside the motorcar. I just can’t remember. They are very, very clever.” He said the beings do experience death, but he does not know how long they live in Earth time. Peter said the beings come from an “outer galaxy,” but they did not say precisely where. When asked if the beings could travel faster than the speed of light, Peter said, “They travel by time, not light.” He reports that the beings are friendly towards earthlings, but do not want to make contact because “there are too many people who wouldn’t understand them.” Asked if the beings could make people understand them, Peter explained that to make people understand “would change the whole world, and they don’t want to do that.” Asked if the beings believe in God, Peter replied, “No Gods.”

Peter said he never went inside the UFO, but he could see “up the beam” how things were inside. The “machine” had three levels, he said. The bottom level was the power unit. The second level included the living quarters, the engineering wing, and the communications. The third, or top, level included the cockpit, the flight deck and the inter-astro control center. He said the entire unit was linked by two vacuum shafts. To use these shafts, one placed oneself in the tube and was deposited on the level indicated. He said that transportation inside the craft was by vacuum “suckles”. The craft was 80 to 90 feet across, and about 60 feet high, according to Peter. He said there was a “stabilizer unit” in the “laboratory section” to simulate Earth, where any humans taken aboard the craft could be placed to have their surroundings completely simulated. Peter said this section was “just empty space,” but that, through suggestion, the person would see what the person wanted to see[ASR2] . In explaining the propulsion system, Peter said that thrust on the horizontal plane was from the outer edge of the craft, and that up and down movement was by direct up or down thrust.

Humcat 1974-25

Source: Carl Van Vlierden for FSR & Mufon

[ASR1]Peter says he began “astro traveling” when he was 14, but quit when he was about 19 because Francesdid not like for him to do it.

[ASR2]Compare to the new Star Trek episodes in which crewmembers enter a huge empty room and use it as a ‘simulator’ and create anything they want to see.