South Africa · 28 August 1996

Adriaan Vlok police station, 1996

Reported

A serving sergeant filmed roughly two minutes of an object hovering over his own police station, and the police air wing put a helicopter up after it.

Where

Adriaan Vlok police station, Pretoria

When

28 August 1996

Who reported it

Multiple serving SAPS officers; a follow-up pursuit reportedly involved a police helicopter

Entities described

None reported

Handled as

UNVERIFIED

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

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

What is not settled

Nothing beats a helicopter flight log here, and none has been produced. No radar corroboration and no SANDF confirmation; conventional readings are unrefuted. A SAPS air-wing log request for 28 Aug 1996 would settle it and is the single highest-value FOI action in the South African file.

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