NUFORC Sighting 11441

Occurred: 1999-11-13 15:15 Local
Reported: 1999-12-21 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5-10seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Estcourt (South Africa), , South Africa

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

The day was beautiful not a cloud in the sky, I was playing in a golf tournament and at about 15:15h I happened to look up into the sky and saw what I thought was some form of aeroplane - there was no sound and it appeared to be about 500m to 1000m up I watched it as it move in a circle thinking that it was an aeroplane I was waiting for it to change position so that I could get a better look at it's shape as this rectangle which had a huge 'v' in the middle (the rectangle could have been like a huge billboard and the 'v' if I had to give it a colour I would say it was red but that I could not swear to)did not represent any flying object that I knew - then after about 5 to 10 seconds (I never took my eyes off this thing) it just vanished (what might be of interest is that the Queen of England was in the town of Estcourt about that time attending some ceremony)I immediately told my playing partners who thought I was fooling with them I kept on looking up for ages afterwards and never saw it again.- The only aircraft that was in the vacinity was a minutes earlier the Queen's South African Police escort hellicopter had flown over indicating that she was near at the time.

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Posted 2000-01-07