from Rand Daily Mail,
South Africa.
Text/illustration in Flying Saucer Review Vol.18-6:
Cyrildene, Johannesburg, July 11, 1972.
Dr.Edward Blumberg of Glanville Road, Cyrildene, was driving home, at about
2.00 p.m., along Queen Street, Kensington. He was accompanied by his wife
Rita and their three children, Lynette, Wendy and Richard. Said Dr.Blumberg:
"Through the windscreen I saw a white object, very high up, hanging motionless.
It was pure white and very clearly etched against the blue sky. There was
no cloud. The object was shaped like a raindrop, with legs or tentacles trailing
from the lower part. I could see the blue sky between the legs."
The doctor said that had he been alone he wouldn't have mentioned what he
had seen, but all his family saw it at the same time. They decided to get
home and fetch binoculars. The object had stayed without moving for four or
five minutes.
"Then, as we watched," said the doctor, "it very slowly tilted towards the east until it lay in a horizontal position. There was a blinding flash from 'the front' like a magnesium flare. the object seemed to flatten as it moved off towards the east. It moved very fast, much faster than a jet, and it seemed to be higher than an aircraft usually flies. There was no vapour. Then, as it moved, it elongated itself into a clearly defined bar of white. We could still see the tentacles behind."
When it went out of sight over the Cyrildene School and behind a koppie, the observers took to their car to circle the hill, but they finally lost sight of the object in smoke haze.
