South Africa · 16 September 1965

Pretoria-Bronkhorstspruit highway, 1965

Reported

Two serving police officers' headlights lit a 30-foot copper-coloured domed disc sitting on the tar; it lifted off on flame jets and left a weight depression and a six-foot burn scar that was sampled by a government laboratory.

Where
Pretoria-Bronkhorstspruit highway, Transvaal
When
16 September 1965
Who reported it
2 uniformed South African Police constables on night patrol
Entities described
None reported
Handled as
INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
Evidence class
GOV-1

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

UNKNOWN - nearest reference http://www.nicap.org/650916pretoria_dir.htm

No document is attached yet. The retrieval is open work.

What is not settled

A strong tier-2 candidate: an official file is stated to exist but is not online. The District Commandant publicly called the matter of a highly secret nature under investigation at top government levels, and the laboratory analysis was never released - which is also consistent with a mundane result. DO NOT use the claim, which appears on AI-generated reference pages, that the constables saw two four-foot figures; that detail is absent from the contemporaneous record and importing it would be a fabrication.

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