The Kalahari Incident – A Bizarre Truth From Forged Documents
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Marcus Lowth
- May 3, 2017
- October 14, 2021
- 6 min read
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According to the late Tony Dodd, for a long time the UK’s leading UFO researcher and investigator, the Kalahari Incident of 1989 is as important as the Roswell crash that happened forty years previously to it. What is even more bizarre about the incident, or more to the point, how knowledge of it came to the public, is that the initial documents were very obviously forgeries. Something would make Dodd look into the alleged incident, however, despite this. This would prove to be a decision that would change his life – not always for the better.
Artist's impression of a UFO over the South African landscape.
According to the leaked documents, a craft, shot down by the South African Airforce, crash landed in the Kalahari ...
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Marcus Lowth
Marcus Lowth is a writer with a love for UFOs, aliens, and the Ancient Astronaut Theory, to the paranormal, general conspiracies, and unsolved mysteries. He has been writing and researching with over 20 years of experience.
Marcus has been Editor-in-Chief for several years due to his excellent knowledge in these fields. Marcus also regularly appears as an expert on radio talk shows including Troubled Minds and Unexplained Radio discussing these topics.
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This is a fascinating account of which I was well aware of but the addition of the video, especially of the alien writing was truly intriguing as I have other samples of alien writing. I suspect that the ET craft was totally phase-shifted into our three-dimensional physical reality that it was vulnerable to being hit by an onboard laser from the S. A. Mirage aircraft! Otherwise, if it remained in between dimensions (“bleeding through into our 3D reality), it would have been safe from any kind of targeted attack from the military!
OK this is what happened to me regarding this case: I often had interesting conversations with a guy at my gym. He asked me one day if I remember the Kalahari incident and I said ‘yes’: He then told me that he can confirm to me, from first hand experience, that this incident is indeed true and that it DEFINITELY happened. This past weekend (06/10/2018) I went to a birthday party and someone told me that the birthday boy’s father worked for the SA National Intelligence and that he knows something about the Kalahari Incident. I then proceeded to strike up a conversation with him and I asked him if he knows something about the Kalahari incident. He then told me that he was a project engineer for the National Intelligence and that “YES” it definitely happened and he can confirm it but that’s all he can tell me about that……but he can also confirm to me that there is MUCH more contact with aliens than we are lead to believe.
Yes, it wouldn’t surprise me. I am sure you agree there is a lot of disinformation passed around with shreds of authentic data. Quite often from otherwise trustworthy sources. Check out our Falcon/Condor article which looks at this a little more https://www.ufoinsight.com/books
I knew Tony Dodd during this time and he was totally convinced that this was real and true. However, I also knew of a chap in my city who was also heavily involved in the case supplying ‘documents’ and information to Tony. His name is Henry Azadehdel and also goes by the name of Armen Victorian. A really dodgy case and a really dodgy chap. Check out this link: –
http://www.mythologist.co.uk/henryxfile.html
There is a few things that bother me about this story.
1) There is no ‘secret’ Air Force Base in the Kalahari. I have flown those skies for years and have never seen anything, nor been warned off from flying anywhere.
2) The Mirages were able to down a highly advanced flying saucer with an ‘experimental laser weapon’, but they got their behinds kicked by Cuban pilots flying Mig 23’s in the border war?
3) The apartheid government mindset would not have been to trade such exotic material for nuclear technology. Would you trade a Porche for a bicycle? They would have tried anything to stay in power and a fleet of reverse engineered flying saucers or laser gun wielding fighter jets would have gone a long way.
4) A large percentage of military personnel serving at that time became the ‘step children’ of a country that doesn’t really want them and doesn’t really care for them. I am pretty sure had this story been true, someone or multiple people would have come forward with the story.
5) Our current government cant keep a secret.
6) I am trying to find the forged documents to see what type of aircraft was actually scrambled. All articles reference pictures of Mirage 3’s. The SAAF would either have scrambled Atlas Cheetahs or Mirage F1’s in 1989 to intercept an aircraft.
Good questions and comments that need to be addressed.
Petrus, i was in the Air Force during that time and indeed it happened!Of course this was a secret incident of possible enormous repercussions. My dad was deeply involved in the clean up operation and just as i, he never talked about it and went to his grave with lots of information. He only mentioned that these grey “mannetjies” were very agressive. Lazer technology exsisted during those years supplied by the Israel.
Fascinating as always.A few points bother me though.South Africa already had nuclear tech by 1989.Why would they swap the craft to the US(which had imposed economical sanctions on SA)Where would SA get a laser weapon from which was used to bring down the ufo.The crew member detained at an SA airbase would be long dead by now.Killed and body disposed of to prevent the secret getting to the Mandela government.Great article nevertheless.