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Source: Project Blue Book case files

On the morning of Saturday, December 2, at 10:50 a.m. we were on the Nanyika golf course, moving from the fourth green to the fifth tee, when suddenly from behind us I heard a rather high-pitched buzz which I thought to be a swarm of bees. "I turned round and called a warning to who was about 15 feet to my right. She had evidently heard the same sound as she had put up her arm as if to protect her head.

However, although the sound persisted, there was nothing to be seen, I followed with my eyes the direction of the sound and as it died away I suddenly saw, in a clear sky, a pearly-coloured object which I momentarily thought was a piece of thistledown floating and drifting high above me. At that moment, I saw a bird about 100 feet up and realized that whatever I was looking at was at a considerable altitude.

The object was circular and seemed to be, at the height at which I saw it, about the size of an East African 50 cent piece. It was thicker across its vertical axis and was not unlike a top, flattened at its upper and lower poles. It appeared to be spinning on a clockwise direction while hovering in an almost stationary position.

I called out to or "What's that in the sky?" Then: "It's a flying saucer ." She had just seen it too and called back "Don't be so ridiculous." "It is !" "Whether or not it was, in fact, one I shall, for simplicity, from now on call it a flying saucer.

The colour of the saucer had a certain pearly iridescence and did not have any normal metallic look. "The saucer was absolutely clear and quite unlike anything I have ever seen before flying. I would point out that my wife and I were playing golf and had no thought in our minds of anything like this. It was entirely due to the sound of the "bees" that we looked skyward at all and I do not know whether in fact there were bees or anything similar about or if the sound came from the flying saucer.

"This is an exact and true description of what I saw ."